crustacean

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Our own Anderson Cooper, making his return to CNN SATURDAY MORNING for a tour of New York's latest crustacean -- I mean creation.

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  1. noun Any of various predominantly aquatic arthropods of the class Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimps, and barnacles, characteristically having a segmented body, a chitinous exoskeleton, and paired, jointed limbs.
  2. adjective Of or belonging to the Crustacea.

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  • A small crustacean was already inspecting this new addition to the reef. —  Bloodhype
  • Our own Anderson Cooper, making his return to CNN SATURDAY MORNING for a tour of New York's latest crustacean -- I mean creation. —  CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2003
  • The independence of a living thing like a human being or a crustacean is a product of the imagination. —  The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope
  • These clouds at length poured a heavy shower on the yawning earth; flakes of ice or hail accompanied it, and we enjoyed a cool draught of iced water, where the air had just before been nearly as warm as the blood In emptying the water out of the sunken boat we found a crayfish resembling those which I had seen in the freshwater lagoons about Lake George; the remains of this crustacean were also abundant there, at places where water had been but very temporarily lodged Footnote. —  Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1
 

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Words tagged crustacean

cirripede · decapod · copepod · ostracod · notostraca · triops

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  1. From New Latin Crūstācea, class name, neuter pl. of crūstāceus, hard-shelled, from Latin crūsta, shell; see kreus- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Crustacea + -an.
 

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/krəsˈteɪʃɪən/
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