branchiopod

Definitions of branchiopod

1. 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

   types:

   daphnia, water flea

   minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae

   fairy shrimp

   small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back

   Artemia salina, brine shrimp

   common to saline lakes

   tadpole shrimp

   a kind of branchiopod crustacean

   type of:

   crustacean

   any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
2. adjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda
   synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous