decapod crustacean

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   crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax

   Synonymsdecapod

   Broadercrustacean

   Narrowercrablobstercrayfishhermit crabshrimpprawntropical prawn

   Part ofDecapoda

Questions about decapod crustacean

What does decapod crustacean mean?

decapod crustacean means "crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax".

What is another word for decapod crustacean?

Close synonyms include decapod. 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 crustacean a common word?

decapod crustacean 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.