English > crustacean: 2 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton. |
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| Member of | Crustacea, class Crustacea | Class of mandibulate arthropods including |
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| Parts | claw, chela, nipper, pincer | A grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods |
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| green gland | One of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae |
| Narrower | barnacle, cirriped, cirripede | marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages |
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| brachyuran | typical crabs |
| branchiopod crustacean, branchiopod, branchiopodan | aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding |
| copepod, copepod crustacean | minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax |
| decapod crustacean, decapod | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax |
| malacostracan crustacean | A major subclass of crustaceans |
| seed shrimp, mussel shrimp, ostracod | tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell |
| stomatopod, stomatopod crustacean | A kind of crustacean |
| Broader | arthropod | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin |
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| Spanish | crustacea, crustáceo, crustáceos |
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| Catalan | crustacea, crustaci |
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