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Webster 1913 Edition
Isopoda
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I-sop′o-da
,Noun.
pl.
(Zool.)
An order of sessile-eyed Crustacea, usually having seven pairs of legs, which are all similar in structure.
☞ The body is usually depressed, with the abdominal segments short, and often consolidated in part. The branchiæ are on the abdominal appendages. The group includes the terrestrial pill bugs and sow bugs, with numerous marine forms. See
Arthrostrata
, Gribble
. Definition 2024
Isopoda
Isopoda
Translingual
Proper noun
Isopoda
- A taxonomic order within the superorder Peracarida – the isopods.
Hypernyms
- (order): Arthropoda - phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Malacostraca - class; Eumalacostraca - subclass; Peracarida - superorder
Hyponyms
- (order): Asellota, Phreatoicidea, Scutocoxifera - clades
- Asellota; Phreatoicidea; Calabozoidea, Cymothoida, Limnoriidea, Oniscidea, Phoratopidea, Sphaeromatidea, Tainisopidea, Valvifera - suborders