Tetradecapoda

Translingual

Etymology

tetra- +‎ Decapoda

Proper noun

Tetradecapoda

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

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

• (group): Isopoda, Amphipoda - orders

References

• “Tetradecapoda”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Tetradecapoda”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.