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UK
/dɪkˈæpɒd/
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NOUN
- crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
- cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
How To Use decapod In A Sentence
- The search for the rootstock of the decapod Crustacea has resulted in the discovery of numerous Paleozoic organisms that bear some similarity to Mesozoic and Cenozoic shrimp, lobsters, and crabs.
- The decapod fossils are preserved in remarkable detail as molds and as body fossils.
- No preparation was necessary for the examination of the decapod fossils.
- It has long been known that the shrimps and lobsters are the most primitive of the decapods and, in fact, have the oldest fossil records.
- Relatively little work has been done recently on decapod faunas from the Middle East.
- However, they are not true shrimp (order Decapoda), but belong to the order Mysidacea, a large, almost exclusively marine order. Crustacea
- Throughout the euphausiids, decapods, and stomatopods, larvae invariably possess compound eyes, which are naturally complicated structures.
- Urine signals, excreted through nephropores located near the base of the antennae, are a likely source of pheromonal cues in decapods.
- A new genus and species of goneplacid crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Goneplacidae) from the Caribbean. All that matters
- Project SQUID was named after the jet-propelled decapod of the sea. John B. Fenn - Autobiography
