OSTRACOD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell

Synonyms:

mussel shrimp; ostracod; seed shrimp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Holonyms ("ostracod" is a member of...):

Ostracoda; subclass Ostracoda (seed shrimps)

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