Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A crustacean of the order Decapoda, such as a crab, lobster, or shrimp, characteristically having ten legs, each joined to a segment of the thorax.
- n. A cephalopod mollusk, such as a squid or cuttlefish, having ten armlike tentacles.
- adj. Of or relating to the Decapoda or a decapod.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having ten feet, as a crustacean, or ten rays or arms, as a cephalopod; pertaining to the Decapoda in either sense. Also decapodal, decapodous.
- n. In Crustacea, a decapodous or ten-footed crustacean, as a crab, lobster, shrimp, or prawn; one of the Decapoda.
- n. In Mollusca, a decacerous or ten-armed cephalopod; one of the Decapoda.
- n. Also, rarely, decapode.
- n. In mech., a ten-wheeled locomotive; strictly, a locomotive having eight driving-wheels and a single truck: a type used for hauling heavy freight-trains.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Having ten legs.
- n. zoology Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish.
- n. zoology Any crustacean, of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.
- n. rail transport A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations. Sometimes capitalized.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively, .
WordNet 3.0
- n. crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
- n. cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
Etymologies
- deca- + -pod (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Decapoda, order name : deca- + -poda, -pod. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The French embassy said a year-long research of fauna conducted in the deep-sea and coastal ecosystems of Panglao Island resulted in the discovery of over 1,200 species of decapod or 10-legged crustaceans and some 6,000 species of mollusks.”
“To put it in perspective, the whole decapod crustacean (shrimp or prawn) fauna of Japan barely exceeds 1,600 species.”
“Annotated checklist of marine decapod Crustacea from Shark Bay, Western Australia.”
“Saint-Paul, U., 1999a: The contribution of estuarine decapod larvae to marine macrozooplankton communities in Northeast Brazil.”
“Carcinization as an underlying synapomorphy for the decapod crustacean taxon Meiura.”
“Project SQUID was named after the jet-propelled decapod of the sea.”
“Assuming the Vilenjji believed the evidence of their own electronic eyes, they could reasonably come to no other conclusion than that the small quadruped and decapod were both demised and in the process of being digested.”
““Do you suppose the great decapod-the gods rot his tentacles for the nets he has torn and the catches he has stolen-do you suppose he lives anyplace else?””
“To-day the modern automobile somewhat resembles, in its outlines, across between a decapod locomotive and a steam fire-engine, or at least something concerning the artistic appearance of which the layman has very grave doubts.”
“They dig somewhat after the manner of the fluviatile long-tailed decapod crustaceans, of the genera”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘decapod’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Shrimp
shrimp, Shrimp, jumbo shrimp, mantis shrimp, peacock mantis sh..., opossum shrimp, brown shrimp, pistol shrimp, bamboo shrimp, cherry shrimp, fire shrimp, Japanese marsh sh... and 20 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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Crustaceans
yabby, marron, gilgie, koonac, crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy, cray, koura, mudbug, parastacine and 69 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for decapod.
bilby *guffaw* Apr 30, 2009
chained_bear HA HA HA!! I just saw yarb's comment... tee heeeee! Oct 20, 2008
yarb Judging by its lust for salt-beef, I would say O'Brian's creature is in fact five Newfoundlanders. Mar 14, 2008
reesetee Could this be...? Mar 14, 2008
chained_bear "...he turned to the most interesting and most recent creature, a decapod that had fixed the terrible hooks and suckers of its long arms into the net of salt beef towing over the side to get rid of at least some of the salt before the pieces went into the steep-tub—had fixed them with such obstinate strength that it had been drawn aboard."
--O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 84–85 Mar 14, 2008