crustacé

Definitions of crustacé
  1. noun
    any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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    malacostracés
    a major subclass of crustaceans
    décapodes
    crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
    crabe
    decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
    homard
    any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
    langouste, écrevisse
    small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
    isopodes
    any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling
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    arthropode
    invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
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