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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having thoracic limbs differentiated as ambulatory legs, as a crab or lobster; belonging to the Thoracipoda; malacostracous.
  • noun A member of the Thoracipoda; a crustacean which walks on specialized thoracic limbs (pereiopods); a malacostracan.

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