CRUSTACEAN


Meaning of CRUSTACEAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌkrəs-ˈtā-shən ]

noun

Date: 1835

: any of a large class (Crustacea) of mostly aquatic mandibulate arthropods that have a chitinous or calcareous and chitinous exoskeleton, a pair of often much modified appendages on each segment, and two pairs of antennae and that include the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, wood lice, water fleas, and barnacles

• crustacean adjective

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