Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ostracoidea

Ostracoidea , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek 'o`strakon shell of a testacean + -oid.]

(Zoology) An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about. Now usually written Ostracoda. [archaic]