decápodo

Definitions of decápodo
  1. noun
    cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
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    calamar
    widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
    jibia, sepia
    ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
    calamar gigante
    largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
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    cefalópodo
    marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
  2. noun
    crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
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    cangrejo
    decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
    cámbaro, langosta
    small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
    ermitaño
    small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
    nécora
    burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male
    cámbaro, langosta
    large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
    type of:
    crustáceo
    any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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