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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 and crustaceology.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology The study of crustaceans.

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