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Decapoda   Listen
proper noun
Decapoda  n. pl.  
1.
(Zool.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc. Note: They have a carapace, covering and uniting the somites of the head and thorax and inclosing a gill chamber on each side, and usually have five (rarely six) pairs of legs. They are divided into two principal groups: Brachyura and Macrura. Some writers recognize a third (Anomura) intermediate between the others.
2.
(Zool.) A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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Words linked to "Decapoda" :   genus Loligo, suborder Natantia, Astacidae, subclass Dibranchia, animal order, genus Ommastrephes, Spirulidae, family Astacidae, Natantia, decapod, Nephropsidae, suborder Reptantia, Astacura, family Paguridae, Sepiidae, subclass Dibranchiata, Dibranchia



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