单词 | crustacean |
释义 | crustacean (once / 8821 pages) nadj A crustacean is a member of a class of arthropods that live in water. Some of your favorite seafood comes from crustaceans — crabs, lobsters, and shrimps. There are plenty of fish in the sea, and there are also plenty of crustaceans: strange-looking aquatic critters who usually have at least four pairs of limbs, plus a segmented body and a chitinous exoskeleton. If you think of a crust as being a little like a shell, that can help you remember crustaceans are essentially critters that have shells. Our word crust is from Latin crusta (shell or crust). WORD FAMILYcrustacean: crustaceans USAGE EXAMPLESThe strike started December 28 after Pacific Choice Seafood in Humboldt County, California, offered to pay $2.75 a pound for the tasty crustacean. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) The strike started Wednesday after buyers offered to pay $2.75 a pound for the tasty crustacean. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Opponents of Maryland’s Purple Line project haven’t been able to find an endangered crustacean along the proposed route. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) 1n any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton Hypo|Hyper malacostracan crustacean a major subclass of crustaceans decapod, decapod crustaceancrustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax brachyurantypical crabs stomatopod, stomatopod crustaceana kind of crustacean branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodanaquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding copepod, copepod crustaceanminute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish mussel shrimp, ostracod, seed shrimptiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell barnacle, cirriped, cirripedemarine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces crabdecapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers lobsterany of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfishsmall freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster hermit crabsmall soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods shrimpsmall slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible prawnshrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible tropical prawnedible tropical and warm-water prawn krillshrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales opossum shrimpshrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs mantis crab, mantis shrimptropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages isopodany of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling amphipoda kind of malacostracan crustacean daphnia, water fleaminute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae fairy shrimpsmall freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back Artemia salina, brine shrimpcommon to saline lakes tadpole shrimpa kind of branchiopod crustacean brit, brittminute crustaceans forming food for right whales cyclops, water fleaminute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms fish lousea kind of copepod Balanus balanoides, acorn barnacle, rock barnaclebarnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones Lepas fascicularis, goose barnacle, gooseneck barnaclestalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers arthropod invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin 2adj of or belonging to the class Crustacea Syn crustaceous |
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