Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda, which includes the squilla.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having some of the legs close by the mouth, as a mantis-shrimp; of or pertaining to the Stomatopoda. Also stomatopodous, stomapodous.
- n. A member of the Stomatopoda, in any sense.
- n. Also stomapod.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology One of the Stomatopoda; a mantis shrimp.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Stomatopoda.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a kind of crustacean
Etymologies
- From New Latin Stomatopoda, order name : stomato- + -pod. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It's a shrimp-like animal called the stomatopod, and here's how it moves on the beaches of Panama: it actually rolls, and it can even roll uphill.”
“Now, the other type of mantis shrimp is the smasher stomatopod, and these guys open up snails for a living.”
“And so today I'll talk about the extreme stomatopod strike, work that I've done in collaboration with Wyatt Korff and Roy Caldwell.”
“And interestingly, this turns out -- the stomatopod saddle turns out to be the first described biological hyperbolic paraboloid spring.”
“And this is a spearing mantis shrimp, or stomatopod.”
“The stomatopod might be one of my new favorite animals.”
“Here, we report a biophysical mechanism that creates a natural full-visible-range achromatic quarter-wave retarder in the eye of a stomatopod crustacean.”
“U.C. Berkeley's C.ldwell concurs, noting that the unique capability of the stomatopod eye had been described but "how that actually was done was pretty much a mystery.”
“In some stomatopod species, reflection of circularly polarized light is sex-specific, which could play a role in sexual signaling or mate selection.”
“According to Dr Justin Marshall, the stomatopod eye “contains 16 different types of photoreceptors 12 for colour analysis, compared to our 3 cones, colour filters and many polarisation receptors, making it by far the world’s most complex retina.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stomatopod’.
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-opods
footed feet - Got legs?
glassopod, actinopod, adelopod, anthropod, baenopod, brachiopod, branchiopod, cephalopod, cercopod, chenopod, chilopod, condylopod and 32 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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Looking Words Up is Time-Consuming, D...
Stuff found while looking up other stuff, and there's no place to put this stuff.
storax, spignel, cassia lignea, gum serapin, spikenard, paraterminal, paraterminal, cingulate gyrus, hypocaust, laconicum, tepidarium, frigidarium and 119 more...
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...another list...
I've no idea where I got this page full of words, but whatever it is, I want to find it again. May have duplicate words from other lists.
bicameral, aphelion, dirigible, parhelion, flocculus, vernier, corticate, oxalis, pandanus, calabash, plumbago, jonquil and 217 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 stomatopod.
chained_bear Var. stomapod, which has an interesting page just because squillian is on it. Aug 27, 2008