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D0067800 (dĕk′ə-pŏd′)n.1. Any of various crustaceans of the order Decapoda, characteristically having five pairs of walking legs attached to the thorax and three pairs of maxillipeds used for feeding, and including the crabs, lobsters, and shrimps.2. Any of various cephalopod mollusks having eight arms and two tentacles, and including the squids and cuttlefishes.

[From New Latin Decapoda, crustacean order name : deca- + -poda, -pod. Sense 2, from New Latin Decapoda, former cephalopod order name : deca- + -poda, -pod.]

de·cap′o·dan (dĭ-kăp′ə-dən), de·cap′o·dous (-dəs) adj.

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(ˈdɛkəˌpɒd) n1. (Animals) any crustacean of the mostly marine order Decapoda, having five pairs of walking limbs: includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, prawns, and crayfish2. (Animals) any cephalopod mollusc of the order Decapoda, having a ring of eight short tentacles and two longer ones: includes the squids and cuttlefishadj3. (Zoology) of, relating to, or belonging to either of these orders4. (Zoology) (of any other animal) having ten limbs decapodal, deˈcapodan, deˈcapodous adj

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n. 1. any crustacean of the order Decapoda, having five pairs of limbs, including the crabs, lobsters, crayfish, prawns, and shrimps. 2. any cephalopod having ten arms, as a cuttlefish or squid. adj. 3. belonging or pertaining to the decapods. 4. having ten feet or legs. [1825–35; < New Latin Decapoda. See deca-, -pod] de•cap•o•dan (dəˈkæp ə dn) adj., n. de•cap′o•dous, adj.

dec·a·pod

(dĕk′ə-pŏd′)1. A crustacean characteristically having ten legs, each joined to a segment of the thorax. Crabs, hermit crabs, lobsters, and shrimp are decapods.2. A cephalopod mollusk, such as a squid or cuttlefish, having ten arm-like tentacles.

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Noun	1.	decapod - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thoraxdecapod crustaceancrustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeletonDecapoda, order Decapoda - lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawnscrab - decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincerslobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridaecrawdaddy, crawfish, crawdad, crayfish - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobsterhermit crab - small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropodsshrimp - small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edibleprawn - shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edibletropical prawn - edible tropical and warm-water prawn
	2.	decapod - cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long onescephalopod, cephalopod mollusk - marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentaclesDecapoda, order Decapoda - squids and cuttlefishessquid - widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail finscuttle, cuttlefish - ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shellspirula, 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

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(dĕk`əpŏd') (Gr.,=10 feet), name for invertebrate animals of the crustaceancrustacean
, primarily aquatic arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea. Most of the 44,000 crustacean species are marine, but there are many freshwater forms. The few groups that inhabit terrestrial areas have not been particularly successful in an evolutionary sense; most require
..... Click the link for more information. order Decapoda (phylum ArthropodaArthropoda
[Gr.,=jointed feet], largest and most diverse animal phylum. The arthropods include crustaceans, insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, scorpions, and the extinct trilobites.
..... Click the link for more information. ) including the crabs, the lobsters and crayfish, and the true shrimps, all having five pairs of legs. The name Decapoda was also formerly applied to a very different group of animals, a cephalopodcephalopod
, member of the class Cephalopoda, the most highly organized group of mollusks (phylum Mollusca), and including the squids, octopuses, cuttlefish, and nautiluses. The class as a whole has become adapted for a free-swimming existence.
..... Click the link for more information. order including the cuttlefish and squids, characterized by two long and eight short tentacles. The cuttlefish are now classified in the order Sepiida and the squids in the order Teuthoidea of the class Cephalopoda in the phylum MolluscaMollusca
, taxonomic name for the one of the largest phyla of invertebrate animals (Arthropoda is the largest) comprising more than 50,000 living mollusk species and about 35,000 fossil species dating back to the Cambrian period.
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1. any crustacean of the mostly marine order Decapoda, having five pairs of walking limbs: includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, prawns, and crayfish 2. any cephalopod mollusc of the order Decapoda, having a ring of eight short tentacles and two longer ones: includes the squids and cuttlefish 3. (of any other animal) having ten limbs

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noun crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax

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noun cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones

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