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Annihilate
verb · 78% connection
To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Antenna
noun · 78% connection
A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Argulus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Armadillo
noun · 78% connection
A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Artemia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Bore
verb · 78% connection
To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Calipers
n. pl. · 78% connection
An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Cancer
noun · 78% connection
A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Chamber
noun · 78% connection
That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Coak
noun · 78% connection
A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron unitin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Copepoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Crab
noun · 78% connection
One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Cumacea
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Cypris
noun · 78% connection
A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Eagre
noun · 78% connection
A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly calle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Gribble
noun · 78% connection
A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
Keel
noun · 78% connection
A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, amphipod, crustacea, bore.
