DECAPODS

Meaning of DECAPODS in English

Important group of crustaceans with 5 pairs of thoracic walking and grasping legs (e.g . prawns and lobsters). Squid are decapod mollusks as they have 10 tentacles around their mouth.

Fishery English glossary. Английский глоссарий рыболовства . 2012

DECAPODS — 1) десятиногие ракообразные (Decapoda) 2) десятиногие головоногие моллюски (Decapoda)
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
DECAPODS — 1) десятиногие ракообразные ( Decapoda ) 2) десятиногие головоногие моллюски ( Decapoda )
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
SWIMMERET — noun Date: 1840 one of a series of small unspecialized appendages under the abdomen of many crustaceans that are best …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MALACOSTRACAN — noun see: mollify Date: 1835 any of a large subclass (Malacostraca) of crustaceans having a thorax consisting of eight segments …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
DECAPOD — Any of more than 8,000 species (order Decapoda) of crustacean s having five pairs of legs attached to the thorax. …
Английский словарь Британика
BLUE CRAB — Any member of a genus ( Callinectes ) of decapods , particularly C. sapidus and C. hastatus , common edible …
Английский словарь Британика
SWIMMERET — noun also swim·mer·ette |swimə|ret ( -s ) Etymology: swimmer + -et, -ette : one of a series of small unspecialized …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MEROPODITE — məˈräpəˌdīt noun ( -s ) Etymology: mer- (III) + podite : the segment fourth from the base of some limbs …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ISCHIOPODITE — -ˈäpəˌdīt noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary ischi- + -podite : the third joint from the base of certain limbs of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BOPYRIDAE — -rəˌdē noun plural Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Bopyrus, type genus (probably from a proper name Bopyrus ) + …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DECCAPODOUS — (a.) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
Английский словарь Webster
DECCAPODOUS — ( a. ) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
DIBRANCHIATE — /duy brang"kee it, -kee ayt'/ , adj. 1. belonging or pertaining to the Dibranchiata, a subclass or order of cephalopods …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DECAPOD — — decapodan /deuh kap"euh dn/ , adj. , n. — decapodous , adj. /dek"euh pod'/ , n. 1. any crustacean …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SWIMMERET — noun Date: 1840 : one of a series of small unspecialized appendages under the abdomen of many crustaceans that are …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NATANT — adjective Etymology: Middle English natand, from Latin natant-, natans, present participle of natare to swim; akin to Latin nare to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MALACOSTRACAN — noun Etymology: ultimately from Greek malakostrakos soft-shelled, from malakos soft + ostrakon shell — more at mollify , oyster Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DECCAPODOUS — adj belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
Webster English vocab
SWIMMERET — [swim.mer.et] n (1840): one of a series of small unspecialized appendages under the abdomen of many crustaceans that are best …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
NATANT — [na.tant] adj [ME natand, fr. L natant-, natans, prp. of natare to swim; akin to L nare to swim; akin …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MALACOSTRACAN — [mal.a.cos.tra.can] n [ultim. fr. Gk malakostrakos soft-shelled, fr. malakos soft + ostrakon shell--more at mollify, oyster] (1835): any of a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
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Britannica English vocabulary
PELAGIC ZONE — ecological realm that includes the entire ocean water column. Of all the inhabited Earth environments, the pelagic zone has the …
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NEKTON — the assemblage of pelagic animals that swim freely, independent of water motion or wind. Only three phyla are represented by …
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DECAPOD — (order Decapoda), any of more than 8,000 species of crustaceans that include shrimp, lobsters, crayfish, hermit crabs, and crabs. The …
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CRAB — any short-tailed member of the crustacean order Decapodaespecially the Brachyura, or true crabs, but also other forms such as the …
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JURASSIC PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. second of three …
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LOBSTER — n. Any of numerous species of marine shrimplike decapods that are bottom-dwellers and mostly nocturnal. Lobsters scavenge for dead animals …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
DECAPOD — n. Any of more than 8,000 species (order Decapoda) of crustacean s having five pairs of legs attached to the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
CRAYFISH — n. or crawfish or crawdad Any of more than 500 species of decapods that are closely related to the lobster …
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BLUE CRAB — Any member of a genus ( Callinectes ) of decapods , particularly C. sapidus and C. hastatus , common edible …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

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