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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Entomostraca n : in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use [syn: {Entomostraca}, {subclass Entomostraca}]
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