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Meanings of class Crustacea in English

Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas.

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        Examples for "Crustacea"
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        The stress favours the development of new and more highly organised Crustacea.
        The Story of Evolution
        2
        Returning to the water, the primitive insects would develop gills, like the Crustacea.
        The Story of Evolution
        3
        PALPI.-Jointedappendages to some of the organs of the mouth in insects and Crustacea.
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
        4
        Others announce the coming of the long-tailed Crustacea, of the lobster and shrimp type.
        The Story of Evolution
        5
        Of Articulates we find only two classes, Worms and Crustacea.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 / A Magazin...
        Usage of class Crustacea in English
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        Moreover, a crustacean is an aquatic arthropod of the class Crustacea, which comprises crabs, shrimp, barnacles, lobsters, and freshwater crayfish.
        Consider the lobster: and other essays
        2
        A fine species of the class Crustacea, discovered by him, has been described and figured in the Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoological Society.
        Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
        3
        He didn't have time to finish off the class Crustacea through an examination of its stomatopods, amphipods, homopods, isopods, trilobites, branchiopods, ostracods, and entomostraceans.
        Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...