crustacean

crus·ta·cean  (kr-stshn)

n.

Any of various predominantly aquatic arthropods of the class Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimps, and barnacles, characteristically having a segmented body, a chitinous exoskeleton, and paired, jointed limbs.

adj.

Of or belonging to the Crustacea.

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[From New Latin Crstcea, class name, neuter pl. of crstceus, hard-shelled, from Latin crsta, shell; see kreus- in Indo-European roots.]

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crustacean [krʌˈsteɪʃən]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any arthropod of the mainly aquatic class Crustacea, typically having a carapace hardened with lime and including the lobsters, crabs, shrimps, woodlice, barnacles, copepods, and water fleas

adj also crustaceous

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Crustacea

[from New Latin crūstāceus hard-shelled, from Latin crūsta shell, crust]

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crustacean  (kr-stshn)

Any of various widespread arthropods of the class Crustacea that live mostly in water and have a hard shell, a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Crustaceans include crabs, lobsters, shrimp, barnacles, and copepods.

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insect, spider, crustacean - One major difference between insects, spiders, and crustaceans is the antennae; most insects have one pair, spiders have none, and crustaceans have two pairs.

See also related terms for spider.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton arthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin class Crustacea, Crustacea - class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas green gland - one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae malacostracan crustacean - a major subclass of crustaceans decapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax brachyuran - typical crabs stomatopod, stomatopod crustacean - a kind of crustacean branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan - aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding copepod, copepod crustacean - minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish mussel shrimp, ostracod, seed shrimp - tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell barnacle, cirriped, cirripede - marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces chela, nipper, pincer, claw - a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
Adj.	1.	crustacean - of or belonging to the class Crustacea crustaceous

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crustacean

Crustaceans

barnacle, crab, crayfish, crawfish, (U.S.) or (Austral. & N.Z. informal) craw, Dublin Bay prawn, freshwater shrimp, goose barnacle, gribble, hermit crab, horseshoe crab or king crab, king prawn, krill, land crab, langoustine, lobster, Norway lobster, opossum shrimp, oyster crab, prawn, robber crab, sand hopper, beach flea, or sand flea, sand shrimp, scorpion, sea spider, shrimp, soft-shell crab, spider crab, spiny lobster, rock lobster, crawfish, or langouste, water flea

Translations

crustacean [krʌsˈteɪʃɪən] N → crustáceo m

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crustacean [krʌˈsteɪʃ^ən] n → crustacé m

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crustacean

n → Schalentier nt, → Krustazee f (spec)

adj characteristics, class → der Schalentiere or Krustazeen (spec); appearance → krebsähnlich

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crustacean [krʌsˈteɪʃən] n (Zool) → crostaceo

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crustacean

n / adj crustacean [kraˈsteiʃən]

(of) any of a group of animals, including crabs, lobsters, shrimps etc, whose bodies are covered with a hard shell. skaaldier, krustasee حَيوانات قِشْريّـه ракообразно животно korýš(ovitý) krebsdyr; skaldyr Krustentiere (pl.) οστρακόδερμο crustáceo koorikloom سخت پوست äyriäinen crustacé חַי מִמַחלֶקֶת הַסַרטָנִים पर्पटीय korepnjaci, raci héjas állat krustasea krabbadÿr crostaceo 甲殻類 갑각류 동물 vėžiagyvis vēžveidīgais; vēžveidīga- krustasia schaaldier skalldyr skorupiak crustáceo crustaceu ракообразные kôrovec lupinar ljuskar kräftdjur, skaldjur สัตว์น้ำที่มีเปลือกแข็ง kabuklular 甲殼綱動物 ракоподібний خول دار جانور loài giáp xác 甲壳纲的动物