decapod_crustacean (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *decapod crustacean*:
NOUN	animal	decapod crustacean, decapod	crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax

English > *decapod crustacean*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.
Synonym	decapod
Member of	Decapoda, order Decapoda	lobsters
Narrower	crab	decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
	crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy	small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
	hermit crab	small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
	lobster	Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families ... / families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
	prawn	Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers
	shrimp	small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers
	tropical prawn	edible tropical and warm-water prawn
Broader	crustacean	Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
Spanish	decápodo
Catalan	decàpode

HyperDic: decapod_crustacean