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Webster 1913 Edition

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rop.

Noun.

pl.

[NL., from Gr.

μαλακόσ

soft + [GREEK] shell of a testacean.]

(Zool.)

A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.