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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That department of zoology which relates to crustaceans, or crabs, shrimps, etc. Also called
crustaceology and malacostracology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The department of zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also
malacostracology andcrustaceology .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The study of
crustaceans .
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