Usually means: Crustaceans with segmented bodies, appendages.
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  6. malacostracan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. malacostracan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (malacostracan)

▸ noun:  (zoology) Any of very many crustaceans of the class Malacostraca.

Similar:
malacostracean, malacostracologist, lophogastrid, malacanthid, apseudomorph, macruran, thecostracan, leptognathiid, malacosteine, malacopterygian, more...

Types:
shrimp, lobster, crab, crayfish, more...

Phrases:
malacostracan crustaceans, malacostracan crustacean, more...

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Similar:
malacostracean, malacostracologist, lophogastrid, malacanthid, apseudomorph, macruran, thecostracan, leptognathiid, malacosteine, malacopterygian, more...

Types:
shrimp, lobster, crab, crayfish, more...

Phrases:
malacostracan crustaceans, malacostracan crustacean, more...



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