| NOUN | animal | malacostracan crustacean | a major subclass of crustaceans |
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| Meaning | A major subclass of crustaceans. | |
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| Member of | Malacostraca, subclass Malacostraca | largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial / terrestrial crustaceans |
| Narrower | amphipod | A kind of malacostracan crustacean |
| isopod | Any of various small terrestrial / terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling | |
| krill | Shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans | |
| opossum shrimp | Shrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs | |
| Broader | crustacean | Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton |
| Spanish | crustáceos malacostracos, malocostráceo | |
| Catalan | malocostraci | |
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