branchiopod

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda

See Branchiopoda.

In short, she was a branchiopod, to be vulgarly precise, a water-flea. — "Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character, Douglas English
He didn’t have time to finish off the class Crustacea through an examination of its stomatopods, amphipods, homopods, isopods, trilobites, branchiopods, ostracods, and entomostraceans. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan

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