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Pleopod

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

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Appendage 76% connected

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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Extremity 76% connected

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.

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Member 76% connected

To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.

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Isopod 70% connected

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

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Lobster 70% connected

Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. v…

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Shrimp 70% connected

To contract; to shrink.

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Swimmeret 92% 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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