Exuviae: alternatives and connections

A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other ani…

The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.

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An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which…

A cottage or hut.

Alt. of Crayfish

Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very d…

The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergr…

The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdys…

The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.

The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes…

The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it…

A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.