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Word Meanings - ENTOMOSTRACA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.

Related words: (words related to ENTOMOSTRACA)

  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • SPECIES
    A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
  • PHYLLOPODA
    An order of Entomostraca including a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also Branchiopoda. Note: In some, the body is covered
  • MINUTELY
    In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
  • INCLUDED
    Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
  • LARGE-ACRED
    Possessing much land.
  • SEVERALITY
    Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
  • SEVERALLY
    Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
  • SEVERAL
    1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
  • CRUSTACEA
    One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered. Note: The body usually consists of an anterior part, made up of the head and thorax combined, called
  • SEVERALTY
    A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
  • COPEPODA
    An order of Entomastraca, including many minute Crustacea, both freshwater and marine. Note: They have a distinct carapace. The eggs are carried in a pair of external pouches. Some are parasites of fishes.
  • NUMBERLESS
    Innumerable; countless.
  • LARGE-HANDED
    Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
  • LARGE-HEARTED
    Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
  • MINUTE
    1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
  • MINUTEMAN
    A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
  • GROUP
    A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
  • NUMBER
    The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of
  • GROUPER
    One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper , and the black grouper, or warsaw , both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail .
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • SUBGROUP
    A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
  • FOOL-LARGESSE
    Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
  • COMMINUTE
    To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
  • WENLOCK GROUP
    The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
  • AGGROUPMENT
    Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
  • OUTNUMBER
    To exceed in number.
  • LUDLOW GROUP
    A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
  • AGROUPMENT
    See AGGROUPMENT
  • ANTENUMBER
    A number that precedes another. Bacon.
  • AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
    The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
  • MISNUMBER
    To number wrongly.

 

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