Definition of Entomastraca
||En`to*mos"tra*ca (?), n. pl. [NL.,
fr. Gr. &?; cut in pieces + &?; burnt clay, the hard shell of
Testacea.] (Zoöl.) One of the subclasses of
Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute.
The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda,
Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda,
and Cladocera.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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