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EUPHAUSIACEA

Dictionary entry overview: What does Euphausiacea mean?

• EUPHAUSIACEA (noun)
The noun EUPHAUSIACEA has 1 sense:

1. small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill

Familiarity information: EUPHAUSIACEA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EUPHAUSIACEA (noun)

Sense 1

Euphausiacea ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Euphausiacea; order Euphausiacea

Hypernyms ("Euphausiacea" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Euphausiacea"):

krill (shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales)

Euphausia pacifica (food for jellyfish)

Holonyms ("Euphausiacea" is a member of...):

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)

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