| Noun | 1. | suborder Reptantia - lobsters; crabs animal order - the order of animals Decapoda, order Decapoda - lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns Brachyura, suborder Brachyura - an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface lobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae family Homaridae, Homaridae - large-clawed lobsters |