crustacean

1. 1.

   of or belonging to the class Crustacea

   Synonymscrustaceous

Other forms of crustacean

plural

crustaceans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crustacean

What does crustacean mean?

crustacean means "any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crustacean?

crustacean has 3 syllables: cru-sta-cean. The stress falls on "sta". In IPA it is /kɹəˈsteɪʃən/.

What is another word for crustacean?

Close synonyms include crustaceous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crustacean a common word?

crustacean is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with crustacean?

12 words rhyme with crustacean. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.