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Definition of Malacostracan
1. n. One of the Malacostraca.
Definition of Malacostracan
1. Noun. (zoology) Any of very many crustaceans of the class ''Malacostraca'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Malacostracan
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Medical Definition of Malacostracan
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Malacostracan
Literary usage of Malacostracan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"It seems improbable that a peculiarity of form acquired by the larva of some
ancestral malacostracan should have been retained so permanently in so many ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The second antennae, mandibles and two pairs of maxillae may also be claimed as
of malacostracan lype. To these succeed eight pairs ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... by four pairs of powerful bifurcate swimming feet and two rudimentary pairs,
the number, though not the nature, of these appendages being malacostracan. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1904)
"... in addition to the five-segmented head—only one more than the typical
malacostracan and ... as well as the higher malacostracan orders, must be derived. ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Huxley, however, retains both. malacostracan (mal-a-kos'tra-kan), a. and n. ...
Same as malacostracan: as, ..."
6. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"In one series of malacostracan forms, however, the marginal fold of the dorsal
shield has undergone ... as the fundamental form of malacostracan limb a ..."
7. Habit and Intelligence in Their Connexion with the Laws of Matter and Force by Joseph John Murphy (1869)
"... directly Among the higher, or malacostracan Crustacea, we find Crustacean
quite as remarkable a series, as follows :— 1. Nauplius producing its like. ..."
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