noun
primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas
• Syn: ↑Branchiopoda
• Derivationally related forms: ↑branchiopodous (for: ↑Branchiopoda)
• Hypernyms: ↑class
• Member Holonyms: ↑Crustacea, ↑class Crustacea
• Member Meronyms:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.