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Definition of Brachyura
1. Noun. An order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Member holonyms: Brachyuran, Crab, Genus Menippe, Menippe, Cancridae, Family Cancridae, Family Portunidae, Portunidae, Genus Uca, Uca, Family Pinnotheridae, Pinnotheridae, Family Lithodidae, Lithodidae, Family Majidae, Majidae
Group relationships: Reptantia, Suborder Reptantia
Derivative terms: Brachyurous
Definition of Brachyura
1. n. pl. 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.
Medical Definition of Brachyura
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Brachyura
Literary usage of Brachyura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1901)
"... brachyura were taken. "The food-plant is a tree which does not seem to attain
any great size, but this may be for lack of opportunity, as the bush on ..."
2. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1906)
"South Australia, brachyura n. spp. ; BAKER (11) : Anomura a. sp. ; German ...
Catalogue of fossil brachyura and Cirripedia in Defrance Collection ; Glacial ..."
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)
"Most brachyura leave the egg in the form of a ... as the Anomalous brachyura.—ED.]
t \\ELDON has pointed out the significance of these spines in checking ..."
4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"THE MATING HABITS OF FOUR SPECIES OF THE brachyura. FE CHIDESTER. CLARK UNIVERSITY.
CONTENTS. Page I. Introduction 2. Observations and experiments 3. ..."
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