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Webster 1913 Edition

Cumacea

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Cu-ma′ce-a

(k?-m?′sh?-? or -s?-?)

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Noun.

pl.

[NL.]

(Zool.)

An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.

Definition 2024

Cumacea

Cumacea

Translingual

Proper noun

Cumacea

A taxonomic order within the superorder Peracarida – the cumacean crustaceans.

Hypernyms

(order): Arthropoda - phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Malacostraca - class; Eumalacostraca - subclass; Peracarida - superorder

Hypernyms

(order): Bodotriidae, Ceratocumatidae, Diastylidae, Gynodiastylidae, Lampropidae, Leuconidae, Nannastacidae, Pseudocumatidae - families