Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous small chiefly aquatic crustaceans of the class Ostracoda, having a bivalve carapace and including many extinct species that are commonly found as fossils.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ostracode .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member of the Ostracoda, an order of tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimplike body enclosed in a bivalve shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many small
crustaceans , of the classOstracoda , that resembleshrimps enclosed in abivalve shell
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lü et al. (2004) originally named this taxon Nemegtia, but that turned out to be preoccupied by an ostracod from the Nemegt Formation (shades of 'Ingenia').
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Steve's microfossil search achieved success: he found a fossil ostracod!
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The first act began in Japan fifty years ago, when Osamu Shimomura studied the self-luminous small crustacean ostracod Cypridina.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 - Presentation Speech 2008
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I bet a boy ostracod enjoys his "special long leg."
Puddles doyle 2009
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I bet a boy ostracod enjoys his "special long leg."
Archive 2009-07-01 doyle 2009
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Very few ostracod species incubate their eggs within their body; most lay their eggs either singly or in groups on sediment or aquatic vegetation.
Crustacea 2008
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Interestingly, only 3 males, in contrast to more than 600 females, of the new ostracod species were collected.
Archive 2007-02-01 AYDIN 2007
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A paper by Smith et al.1 that came out in June 2006, and which I just had a chance to read, however, reported the finding of males in a new species of darwinuloid ostracod, Vestalenula cornelia, from Japan.
Archive 2007-02-01 AYDIN 2007
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Interestingly, only 3 males, in contrast to more than 600 females, of the new ostracod species were collected.
An occasional male ostracod AYDIN 2007
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This implies that the conclusions of previous studies that sexed fossil ostracod carapaces from their morphology for example, Martens et al., 2003 may have been flawed.
Archive 2007-02-01 AYDIN 2007
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