order notostraca

1. 1.

   small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace

   SynonymsNotostraca

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofBranchiopoda

Questions about order notostraca

What does order notostraca mean?

order notostraca means "small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace".

What is another word for order notostraca?

Close synonyms include Notostraca. 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 notostraca a common word?

order notostraca 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.