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Definition of Branchiopod crustacean

1. Noun. Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Branchiopod Crustacean

Literary usage of Branchiopod crustacean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1921)
"A Middle Cambrian branchiopod crustacean. Dorsal view of a specimen flattened on shale (X 1.5). c, carapace; e, eye; a, antennae; thl, thoracic legs; er, ..."

2. A Comprehensive Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1921)
"A Middle Cambrian branchiopod crustacean. Dorsal view of a specimen flattened on shale (X 1.5). c, carapace; c, eye; a, antenna;; M, thoracic legs; cr, ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"Audouin, Dumas, and Payen, of the Institute, have attributed it to the Artemia salina, a minute branchiopod crustacean, which in fact swarms in the ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"Audouin, Dumas, an Payen, of the Institute, have attributed it to the Artemia salina, minute branchiopod crustacean, which in fact swarms in the ..."

5. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"Duméril and Milne-Edwards to be a branchiopod crustacean, and is so described in Milne-Edwards' Histoire des crustacés (v. 3, p. 558). But MM. ..."

6. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1919)
"... and one branchiopod crustacean, have been found in the Stonehenge member in Maryland sufficiently well preserved for specific identification. ..."

7. Proteus; Or, Unity in Nature. by Charles Bland Radcliffe (1877)
"The false feet of the prawn, of which their are six pairs, are not unlike the true thoracic feet of the branchiopod crustacean. Each foot consists of a ..."

8. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1881)
"... Observations on 731 Gissler, CF, Effect of Chemico-physical Influences in Evolution of branchiopod crustacean! 557 Sub-elytral Air-passage in ..."

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