CLASS CRUSTACEA
Dictionary entry overview: What does class Crustacea mean?
• CLASS CRUSTACEA (noun)
The noun CLASS CRUSTACEA has 1 sense:
1. class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas
Familiarity information: CLASS CRUSTACEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CLASS CRUSTACEA (noun)
Meaning:
Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
class Crustacea; Crustacea
Hypernyms ("class Crustacea" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class Crustacea"):
crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)
Malacostraca; subclass Malacostraca (largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies)
order Stomatopoda; Stomatopoda (mantis shrimps)
Entomostraca; subclass Entomostraca (in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use)
Branchiopoda; subclass Branchiopoda (primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas)
Copepoda; subclass Copepoda (minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans)
Ostracoda; subclass Ostracoda (seed shrimps)
Cirripedia; subclass Cirripedia (barnacles)
Holonyms ("class Crustacea" is a member of...):
Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)
