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Crustacean   /krəstˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Crustacean

noun
1.
Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton.



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branchiopod crustacean
copepod crustacean
decapod crustacean
malacostracan crustacean
stomatopod crustacean


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"Crustacean" Quotes from Famous Books



... The central calcareous zone abounds in corals and crinoids as well as in numerous brachiopods. In the highest bands a profusion of coiled cephalopods (Clymenia) occurs in some of the limestones, while the shales are crowded with a small but characteristic ostracod crustacean (Cypridina). Here and there traces of fishes have been found, more especially in the Eifel, but seldom in such a state of preservation as to warrant their being assigned to any definite place in the zoological scale. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 - "Destructors" to "Diameter" • Various


Words linked to "Crustacean" :   ostracod, class Crustacea, nipper, pincer, seed shrimp, decapod crustacean, branchiopodan, chela, claw, green gland, branchiopod, Crustacea, stomatopod, decapod, mussel shrimp, cirripede, cirriped, copepod, barnacle, brachyuran, arthropod


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