Definitions of decapod
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cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
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squid
widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
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cuttle, cuttlefish
ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
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Spirula peronii, spirula
a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
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loligo
somewhat flattened cylindrical squid
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ommastrephes
extremely active cylindrical squid with short strong arms and large rhombic terminal fins
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architeuthis, giant squid
largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
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cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk
marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
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crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
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synonyms:
decapod crustacean
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crab
decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
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lobster
any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
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crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish
small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
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hermit crab
small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
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shrimp
small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
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prawn
shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
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tropical prawn
edible tropical and warm-water prawn
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Menippe mercenaria, stone crab
large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida)
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hard-shell crab
edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell
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soft-shell crab, soft-shelled crab
edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell
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Cancer magister, Dungeness crab
small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America
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Cancer irroratus, rock crab
crab of eastern coast of North America
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Cancer borealis, Jonah crab
large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America
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swimming crab
marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming
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fiddler crab
burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male
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pea crab
tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks
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Alaska crab, Alaska king crab, Alaskan king crab, Paralithodes camtschatica, king crab
large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan
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spider crab
any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies
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true lobster
large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs
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Nephrops norvegicus, Norway lobster
edible European lobster resembling the American lobster but slenderer
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crawfish, crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster
large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
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Old World crayfish, ecrevisse
small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
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American crayfish
common large crayfishes of eastern North America
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pistol shrimp, snapping shrimp
small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae
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Palaemon australis, long-clawed prawn, river prawn
large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers
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crustacean
any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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