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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In zoology, a group to which various limits have been assigned. In the Linnean system of classification, the seventh and last order of Insecta, including “insects” without wings, that is, crustaceans, arachnidans, myriapods, etc. In 1795 it was divided by Latreille into seven orders: Suctoria, Thysanura, Parasita, Acephala, Entomostraca, Crustacea, and Myriapoda.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnæn order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

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