HyperDic: mussel_shrimp

English > 1 sense of the expression mussel shrimp:
NOUNanimalmussel shrimp, seed shrimp, ostracodtiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell
English > mussel shrimp: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningtiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell.
Synonymsseed shrimp, ostracod
Member ofOstracoda, subclass Ostracodaseed shrimps
BroadercrustaceanAny mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
Spanishostracoda, ostrácodo
Catalanostracode

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