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A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.

Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and…

The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

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

Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.

The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.

A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.

An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.

A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.

Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.

A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such a…

Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.

A prefix or combining form, indicating identity, or equality; the same numerical value; as in isopod, isomorphous, isochromatic.

Having the shape of an isopod; -- said of the larvae of certain insects.

Same as Isopod.

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

Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.