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Isopod

Having the legs similar in structure; belonging to the Isopoda.

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Sea louse 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.

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Sea slater 76% connected

Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.

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Slater 76% connected

One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.

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Pleopod 70% connected

One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. See Illust. under Crustacea.

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Swimmeret 70% connected

One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They ar…

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