BRANCHIOPOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does branchiopod mean? 

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

1. aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding

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

• BRANCHIOPOD (adjective)
  The adjective BRANCHIOPOD has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda

  Familiarity information: BRANCHIOPOD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRANCHIOPOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan

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

crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "branchiopod"):

daphnia; water flea (minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae)

fairy shrimp (small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back)

Artemia salina; brine shrimp (common to saline lakes)

tadpole shrimp (a kind of branchiopod crustacean)

• BRANCHIOPOD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

branchiopod; branchiopodan; branchiopodous

Pertainym:

subclass Branchiopoda (primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas)