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

Noun

an animal with a hard outer shell and several pairs of legs, which usually lives in water, such as a crab or lobster

Adjective

of crustaceans [Latin crusta shell]

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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.

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

Translations

crustacean [krʌsˈteɪʃən] n → crustáceo

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crustacean [krʌsˈteɪʃən] n → crustacé m

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crustacean [krʌsˈteɪʃən] n → Schalentier nt, Krustazee f

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crustacean [krʌsˈteɪʃən] n → crostaceo