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

The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

Same as Arthrostraca.

erior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.

divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda.

A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

ncludes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

Having ten feet; decapodal. [R.] Bailey.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.

d to pray for another. [Obs.] "We rest your hermits." Shak. Hermit crab (Zoöl.), a marine decapod crustacean of the family Paguridæ. The species are numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal. --…

A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. -- Hom"a*roid, a.

A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms. Cf. Decapoda.

An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea.

A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.

able stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda.