Word Meanings - DECAPOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• DECAPODA
  The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc. Note: They have a carapace, covering and uniting the somites of the head and thorax and inclosing a gill chamber on each side, and usually have five pairs of legs. They are
• ADJECTIVELY
  In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.
• DECAPODAL; DECAPODOUS
  Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
• CRUSTACEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.
• TETRADECAPODA
  See ARTHROSTRACA