order anostraca

1. 1.

   small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps

   SynonymsAnostraca

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofBranchiopoda

Questions about order anostraca

What does order anostraca mean?

order anostraca means "small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps".

What is another word for order anostraca?

Close synonyms include Anostraca. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is order anostraca a common word?

order anostraca is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.