Meaning | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax. |
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Synonym | decapod crustacean |
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Member of | Decapoda, order Decapoda | lobsters |
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Narrower | crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers |
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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 |
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Spanish | decápodo |
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Catalan | decàpode |
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