noun
- Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding.
- synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan
adjective
- Of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda.
- synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous
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