Found 2 items, similar to seed shrimp.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: seed shrimp
seed shrimp
n : tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like
body enclosed in a bivalve shell [syn:
mussel shrimp,
ostracod]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: seed shrimp
Ostracoda
\Os*trac"o*da\, prop. n. pl. (Zo["o]l.)
An order of Entomostraca possessing shrimplike bodies
enclosed in hard bivalve shells; called also
seed shrimp
and
mussel shrimp. They were formerly referred to as
Ostracoidea. They are of small size, and swim freely about;
many are less than 1 mm in length. Microfossils of certain
extinct orders have been found extending back to the Cambrian
age.
[1913 Webster +PJC]