Look up: crustacean

1. Crustacean
   Crustaceans are a class of animals (class Crustacea) that have a hard exoskeleton, jointed legs, and a segmented body that is bilaterally symmetrical. They have two pairs of sensory antennae, one pair of mandibles (for chewing food), and two pairs of maxillae (to help the mandibles in positioning th...
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2. crustacean
   [n] - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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3. Crustacean
   [pronounce: crust-ay-shun] Arthropod with chalky shell and 5-7 pairs of legs (e.g. lobster).
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4. crustacean
   Crustaceans are animals with jointed legs (arthropods) and hard shells. They include crabs, lobsters and barnacles.
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5. Crustacean
   Crus·ta'cean adjective (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- noun An animal belonging to the class Crustacea .
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6. crustacean
   A shell-covered sea creature - for example crabs and lobsters. ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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7. crustacean
   noun any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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8. crustacean
   adjective of or belonging to the class Crustacea
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9. Crustacean
   • (n.) An animal belonging to the class Crustacea. • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.
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10. crustacean
    any member of the subphylum Crustacea (phylum Arthropoda), a group of invertebrate animals consisting of some 39,000 species distributed worldwide. ... [28 related articles]
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11. crustacean
    crustacean (krŭstā'shun) , primarily aquatic arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea. Most of the 44,000 crustacean species are marine, but there are many freshwater forms. The few groups that inhabit terrestrial areas have not been particularly successful in an evolutionary sense; most...
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12. crustacean
    One of the class of arthropods that includes crabs, lobsters, shrimps, woodlice, and barnacles. The external skeleton is made of protein and chitin hardened with lime. Each segment bears a pair of appendages that may be modified as sensory feelers (antennae), as mouthparts, or as swimming, walking, o...
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13. crustacean
    (L: crusta shell, crust) a member of a large subphylum Crustacea, most of which have a hard external skeleton, segmented body, jointed limbs, two pairs of antennas and compound eyes. Crayfish, lobster, shrimp, crab, barnacle, isopod, amphipod, copepod.
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14. crustacean
    (krust-ashan) - Crustacean derives from the Latin word "crusta" meaning "crust, shell, or hard surface." "Cean" is the Latin suffix indicating "belonging to." The word came to mean a class of animals, mainly sea animals, with hard shells (edible shellfish with shells, such as crabs, crawfish, lobster, langou...
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15. Crustacean
    `Crustaceans` (`Crustacea`) form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from abbr=on-->, to the Japanese spider crab with a leg spa...
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