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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use;
[syn: Entomostraca, subclass Entomostraca]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Entomostraca \En`to*mos"tra*ca\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? cut in pieces + ? burnt clay, the hard shell of Testacea.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Entomostraca n 1: in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use [syn: Entomostraca, subclass Entomostraca]