entomostracan
noun
any crustacean belonging to the former subclass Entomostraca.
entomostracous
-
a word derived from
entomostracan.
Example Sentences
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I never succeeded in catching anything besides some beroe, and a few species of minute entomostracous crustacea.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
They are associated with small entomostracous crustaceans of the genus Cythere, and scales of small fishes.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
It begins its life in a form exactly like that of an entomostracous crustacean, and, like a Cyclops, has one large eye in the middle of its forehead.
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by H. W. (Henry William) Lee
