单词 | decapod |
释义 | decapod (once / 181836 pages) n WORD FAMILY decapod: decapods USAGE EXAMPLESHis works focuses on the taxonomy, diversity and ecology of vent-associated decapod crustaceans in the West and South Pacific Ocean. Scientific American(Nov 25, 2013) They say they now believe that all decapod crustaceans - a group that also includes lobsters and crayfish - would show the same response. BBC(Jan 17, 2013) A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) 1n cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones Hypo|Hyper squid widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins cuttle, cuttlefishten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell Spirula peronii, spirulaa small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral loligosomewhat flattened cylindrical squid ommastrephesextremely active cylindrical squid with short strong arms and large rhombic terminal fins architeuthis, giant squidlargest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long) cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles 2n crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax Syn|Hypo|Hyper decapod crustacean crab decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers lobsterany of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfishsmall freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster hermit crabsmall soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods shrimpsmall slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible prawnshrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible tropical prawnedible tropical and warm-water prawn Menippe mercenaria, stone crablarge edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida) hard-shell crabedible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell soft-shell crab, soft-shelled crabedible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell Cancer magister, Dungeness crabsmall edible crab of Pacific coast of North America Cancer irroratus, rock crabcrab of eastern coast of North America Cancer borealis, Jonah crablarge red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America swimming crabmarine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming fiddler crabburrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male pea crabtiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks Alaska crab, Alaska king crab, Alaskan king crab, Paralithodes camtschatica, king crablarge edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan spider crabany of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies true lobsterlarge edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs Nephrops norvegicus, Norway lobsteredible European lobster resembling the American lobster but slenderer crawfish, crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobsterlarge edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters Old World crayfish, ecrevissesmall crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America American crayfishcommon large crayfishes of eastern North America pistol shrimp, snapping shrimpsmall shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae Palaemon australis, long-clawed prawn, river prawnlarge (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers crustacean any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton |
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