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entomostracan

[ en-tuh-mos-truh-kuhn ]

noun

  1. any crustacean belonging to the former subclass Entomostraca.


adjective

  1. of or belonging to this subclass.

entomostracan

/ ˌɛntəˈmɒstrəkən /

noun

  1. any small crustacean of the group (formerly subclass) Entomostraca , including the branchiopods, ostracods, and copepods
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Entomostraca
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌentoˈmostracous, adjective
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Other Words From

  • ento·mostra·cous adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of entomostracan1

First recorded in 1830–40; equivalent to entom(o)- ( def ) + Greek óstrak(on) “potsherd, tile, ballot” + -an ( def ); ostracize ( def )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of entomostracan1

C19: from New Latin entomo- + Greek ostrakon shell; see ostracize
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Example Sentences

On this principle, an oyster on the half-shell might be called an Entomostracan.

How much happier to sit and watch a crowd of weeds, a very forest in miniature, tenanted by creeping things innumerable, and to have your faculty of wonder excited as well as admiration while observing them in full liberty, than to come prepared to call one an ascidian, another an entomostracan, and so on, and to assign to each its place in the phycological handbook, or the zoological catalogue!

The choice is open to maintain the last as an independent subclass, and to follow Claus in calling it the Leptostraca, or to introduce it among the Malacostraca as the Nebaliacea, or with Packard and Sars to make it an entomostracan subdivision under the title Phyllocarida.

The prey which they had captured consisted of entomostracan crustaceans.

Remains of entomostracan crustaceans were found within the bladders.

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