dec·a·pod (d k -p d )n.1. A crustacean of the order Decapoda, such as a crab, lobster, or shrimp, characteristically having ten legs, each joined to a segment of the thorax. 2. A cephalopod mollusk, such as a squid or cuttlefish, having ten armlike tentacles. adj. Of or relating to the Decapoda or a decapod.
[From New Latin Decapoda, order name : deca- + -poda, -pod.]
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decapod Noun
1. a creature, such as a crab, with five pairs of walking limbs
2. a creature, such as a squid, with eight short tentacles and two longer ones [Greek deka ten + pous foot]
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| Noun | 1. | decapod - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thoraxcrustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton crab - decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers lobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae hermit crab - small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods shrimp - small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible prawn - shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible |
| 2. | decapod - cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long onessquid - widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins cuttle, cuttlefish - ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell spirula, Spirula peronii - a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral |