Definition of Decapoda

1. Noun. Lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns.


2. Noun. Squids and cuttlefishes.

Definition of Decapoda

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

Medical Definition of Decapoda

1. 1. The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc. They have a carapace, covering and uniting the somites of the head and thorax and inclosing a gill chamber on each side, and usually have five (rarely six) pairs of legs. They are divided into two principal groups: Brachyura and Macrura. Some writers recognize a third (Anomura) intermediate between the others. 2. A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Ten +, foot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decapoda

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decapod crustacean
decapoda (current term)
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decapodan
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decapped
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decaprenyl
decaprenyl pyrophosphate synthetase
decapsulate
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Literary usage of Decapoda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"decapoda. The decapoda is the most important group of Crustacea, since it contains ... Only the last five pairs (whence the name decapoda) are locomotor. ..."

2. Elements of Zoölogy: A Text-book by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"decapoda or Ten-footed Crustaceans, with only five foot-seg ments; as Crabs, Lobsters, Craw-fishes, Shrimps, Prawns, etc. 2. ..."

3. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"D. decapoda. The very primitive invagination-gastrula of Lucifer, ... Among the other decapoda, a comparatively primitive position is occupied by ..."

4. Elements of Entomology: Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger, Henri Milne-Edwards, Achille Comté (1845)
"The principal orders are named decapoda, Iso'poda, ... I. The order of decapoda (from the Greek, deca, ten, and pous, foot) is so called, ..."

5. A Manual of the Mollusca: A Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1871)
"SECTION B.—decapoda. Arms 8. Tentacles 2, elongated, cylindrical, with expanded ends. Suckers pedunculated, armed with a horny ring. ..."

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