decapod

Other forms of decapod

plural

decapods·

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 decapod

What does decapod mean?

decapod means "crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decapod?

decapod has 3 syllables: de-ca-pod. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for decapod?

Close synonyms include decapod crustacean. 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 decapod a common word?

decapod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.