Word Meanings - EYESTALK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

Related words: (words related to EYESTALK)

• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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
• CRUSTACEA
  One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered. Note: The body usually consists of an anterior part, made up of the head and thorax combined, called
• DECAPOD
  A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.
• DECAPODAL; DECAPODOUS
  Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
• CRUSTACEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.
• MOVABLENESS
  The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• IMMOVABLE
  Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n. Blackstone. Immovable apparatus , an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable
• AMOVABLE
  Removable.
• UNMOVABLE
  Immovable. "Steadfast, unmovable." 1 Cor. xv. 58. Locke.
• IMMOVABLENESS
  Quality of being immovable.
• REMOVABLE
  Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-, n.
• TETRADECAPODA
  See ARTHROSTRACA
• INAMOVABLE
  Not amovable or removable. Palgrave.