单词 | crustacea |
释义 | Crustacean. Zoology. With plural (or occasionally singular) agreement: a large group of mainly aquatic arthropods comprising crabs, lobsters, shrimps, woodlice, barnacles, and many minute forms, which are very diverse in appearance but generally have two pairs of antennae, four or more pairs of limbs, and several other appendages. Also with plural agreement (also in form crustacea): animals of this group (collectively or individually); crustaceans.Long regarded as a class of the phylum Arthropoda, the Crustacea are now considered to warrant the status of a superclass, subphylum, or even phylum. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] Crustacea1656 1656 J. Tradescant Musæum Tradescantianum sig. A4 Shell-creatures, whereof some are called Mollia, some Crustacea, others Testacea. 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 929 The Second Section contains the greater Exanguious Animals, which are either Mollia, as the Sepia... Or, lastly, Crustacea, as the Astacus fluviatilis, Cancer Marinus, &c. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. p. ii Crustacea, or Crabs, Lobsters, &c. 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iv. 244 Its usual food is shell-fish and small crustacea. 1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. ii. 90 Most of the Crustacea, like insects, come forth from the eggs in a state very different from their adult form. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea i. 3 The five classes are the Crustacea, Pycnogonida, Arachnida, Myriapoda, and Insecta. 1928 Amer. Naturalist 62 177 Small crustacea flee from ultra-violet radiation. 1973 A. d'A. Bellairs & J. F. D. Frazer Smith's Brit. Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 5) vii. 266 (heading) The Common Loggerhead feeds mainly on crustacea and molluscs. 2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory x. 1133 These thoracic feeding limbs are called maxillipeds, and phyletic analysis clearly illustrates their multiple independent evolution within the Crustacea. Derivatives crusˈtaceal adj. rare = crustacean adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] crustyc1400 crusted1610 crustaceous1646 crustacean1835 crustaceal1853 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xvii. 130 Like all birds feeding on crustaceal life. 1981 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Nov. They're small, shiny discs of shell with the crude shape of a fleur-de-lys inscribed on them by an accident of bacterial or crustaceal action. 2004 Z. Y. Blech Kosher Food Production x. 168 Molluscan shellfish.., Crustaceal shellfish (for example, shrimp, lobster, and crab), and marine mammals are not Kosher species. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1656 |
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