Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A class of Arthropoda; one of the prime divisions of articulated animals with articulated legs, as distinguished from Insecta, Myriapoda, and Arachnida respectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
crustacean .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas
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Examples
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Closely allied to the crustacea is the sub-family of the _mollusca_, which includes the oyster, clams, and similar creatures; also the snails, cuttle-fish, slugs, nautilus, sea-squirts, etc., etc.
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897
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This leads to harmful effects for marine life that rely on calcification, such as crustacea and molluscs.
British seas: More fish, cleaner and greater biodiversity, says Defra 2010
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{256} Dr. Reeves supposes these to have been "crustacea:" but their stinging and clinging prove them surely to have been jelly-fish -- medusae.
The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847
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This leads to harmful effects for marine life that rely on calcification, such as crustacea and molluscs.
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Yale University Press Bookplate of a crab Pages with a nautical air: A crab, pictured here, seemed just right for Alois Rogenhofer, a librarian at the University of Vienna who wrote about crustacea.
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Yale University Press Bookplate of a crab Pages with a nautical air: A crab, pictured here, seemed just right for Alois Rogenhofer, a librarian at the University of Vienna who wrote about crustacea.
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Nineteen other tomes had been completed, ranging in subject from ethnography to ornithology, botany to crustacea, hydrology to physics.
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The area of transition from freshwater glades to saltwater mangrove swamps is a highly productive zone that nurses great numbers of commercially valuable crustacea.
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At least until New Year's Eve and Day, which I will also probably use as an excuse, even though Lobster God New Year is actually celebrated on February 29th, or what crustacea apostates call "Leap Year."
Archive 2009-12-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009
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The Netherlands Ornithological Mauritanian Expedition of 1980 gathered comprehensive data on waders, crustacea, and other fauna.
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