crustacean
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1. any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | arthropod, |
| definition | : | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | decapod, decapod crustacean, |
| definition | : | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | brachyuran, |
| definition | : | typical crabs (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | copepod, copepod crustacean, |
| definition | : | minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | mussel shrimp, ostracod, seed shrimp, |
| definition | : | tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | barnacle, cirriped, cirripede, |
| definition | : | marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | green gland, |
| definition | : | one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | chela, claw, nipper, pincer, |
| definition | : | a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | class crustacea, crustacea, |
| definition | : | class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas (noun.animal) |
2. of or belonging to the class Crustacea (adj.pert)
| pertainym | : | class crustacea, crustacea, |
| definition | : | class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | class crustacea, crustacea, |
| definition | : | class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas (noun.animal) |
| pertainym | : | class crustacea, crustacea, |
| definition | : | class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | class crustacea, crustacea, |
| definition | : | class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas (noun.animal) |
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