branchiopod crustacean
English Thesaurus
1. aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | crustacean, |
| definition | : | any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | daphnia, water flea, |
| definition | : | minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | fairy shrimp, |
| definition | : | small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tadpole shrimp, |
| definition | : | a kind of branchiopod crustacean (noun.animal) |
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