decapod crustacean

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.