Translingual

Proper noun

Tetradecapoda

1. A taxonomic group within the class Malacostraca – fourteen-legged crustaceans, that lack a carapace, possess sessile compound eyes, and thoracic coxae fused to their pleurites, but now not thought to be of common descent.

Synonyms

• (group): Edriophthalma, Acaridea, Arthrostraca - groups

Hyponyms

• (group): Isopoda, Amphipoda - orders