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DECAPOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("decapod" is a kind of...):
cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk (marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "decapod"):
squid (widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins)
cuttle; cuttlefish (ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell)
spirula; 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)
Holonyms ("decapod" is a member of...):
Decapoda; order Decapoda (squids and cuttlefishes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
Synonyms:
decapod; decapod crustacean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("decapod" is a kind of...):
crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "decapod"):
crab (decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers)
lobster (any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae)
crawdad; crawdaddy; crawfish; crayfish (small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster)
hermit crab (small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods)
shrimp (small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible)
prawn (shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible)
tropical prawn (edible tropical and warm-water prawn)
Holonyms ("decapod" is a member of...):
Decapoda; order Decapoda (lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns)
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