suborder brachyura

1. 1.

   an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface

   SynonymsBrachyura

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofReptantia

Questions about suborder brachyura

What does suborder brachyura mean?

suborder brachyura means "an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface".

What is another word for suborder brachyura?

Close synonyms include Brachyura. 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 suborder brachyura a common word?

suborder brachyura 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.