decapod (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 2 senses of the word *decapod*:
NOUN	animal	decapod, decapod crustacean	crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
animal	decapod	cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones

English > *decapod*: 2 senses > noun 1, animal
Meaning	crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.
Synonym	decapod crustacean
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

English > *decapod*: 2 senses > noun 2, animal
Meaning	cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones.
Member of	Decapoda, order Decapoda	squids and cuttlefishes
Narrower	cuttlefish, cuttle	Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
	spirula, Spirula peronii	A small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
	squid	widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular / triangular tail fins
Broader	cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk	marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
Spanish	decápodo
Catalan	decàpode

HyperDic: decapod