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-pod
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Anomoura
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
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, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Bow net
unknown · 78% connection
A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Brachyura
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the lar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
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, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Carcinology
noun · 78% connection
The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Cirripedia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
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, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Crab
noun · 78% connection
decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Crawfish
noun · 78% connection
large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Crayfish
noun · 78% connection
large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Crust
noun · 78% connection
The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Crustacea
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
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, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Decapoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Ecdysis
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
Exuviae
n. pl. · 78% connection
Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, decapod, crustacea, including, common.
