decapod
English Thesaurus
1. cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk, |
| definition | : | marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | squid, |
| definition | : | widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cuttle, cuttlefish, |
| definition | : | ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | spirula, spirula peronii, |
| definition | : | a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral (noun.animal) |
2. crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | crustacean, |
| definition | : | any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | crab, |
| definition | : | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | lobster, |
| definition | : | any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hermit crab, |
| definition | : | small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | shrimp, |
| definition | : | small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | prawn, |
| definition | : | shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tropical prawn, |
| definition | : | edible tropical and warm-water prawn (noun.animal) |
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