Decapodan.
/dɪˈkapədə/ Zoology. With plural agreement.
1. The highest order of Crustacea, having ten feet or legs; it includes the lobster, crab, crayfish, shrimp, etc.
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1806 Latreille Gen. Crust. et Ins. I. 9 Crustaceorum Distributio generalis..Legio Secunda Malacostraca..Ordo I. Decapoda, Décapodes.]
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 242 In most of the Decapoda, the number of gills is greatly increased.
2. The ten-armed Cephalopoda (order Dibranchiata), distinguished from the Octopoda. Called also Decacera.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda
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1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) viii. 254 The 10-armed cephalopods, called decapoda.
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deˈcapodal adj.
deˈcapodan adj. and n.
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1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. II ii. 1528 The two types, the Decapodan and Tetradecapodan.
deˈcapodous adj.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > having ten feet
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > of or belonging to Malacostraca > of the Thoracostraca > belonging to the Decapoda
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1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 525/2 The locomotive appendages of the mantle in the Decapodous Cephalopods.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 101 The Decapodous Crustaceans.
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decaˈpodiform adj. having the form or shape of a decapod crustacean.
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