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Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.

The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]

A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.

A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

A light or hasty luncheon. Bait bug (Zoöl), a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.

Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ce…

The second joint of the antennæ of crustaceans.

the brine which collects at the bottom. -- Brine shrimp, Brine worm (Zoöl.), a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia. -- Brine spring, a spring of salt water. -- Leach brine (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in dry…

The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

Any crustacean of the family Astacidæ, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mamoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The…

Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.

The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.

A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.

The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans.

An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.

In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. See Illust. under Crustacea.

tozoön. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.