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Definition of Crustaceans
1. crustacean [n] - See also: crustacean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crustaceans
Literary usage of Crustaceans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"Yet these small crustaceans have always been part of our encircling world. ...
crustaceans "Crustacea" is a Latin word of long standing. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"A more full account I will soon give in Professor AS Packard's monograph on
Phyllopod crustaceans of the sexual organs, copulation and the biology of these ..."
3. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"It may be stated, however, that plankton species of crustaceans constitute a
large part, probably nearly all, of the first food of young fishes, ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1900)
"IN 1896 I described some decapod crustaceans found in the Cretaceous formation of
... Like the earlier series, all these crustaceans are preserved in hard ..."
5. The Sea and Its Living Wonders: A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"Compound Eye of the higher crustaceans. — Respiratory Apparatus of the Decapods.
... Victims and Enemies of the crustaceans—Their Fecundity. ..."
6. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1882)
"O. THE STALK-EYED crustaceans OF THE ATLANTIC COAST OF NORTH AMERICA NORTH ...
The study of the extensive collections of crustaceans, made during the past ..."
7. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"by the same naturalist, which were owing to the presence of certain copepod
crustaceans ; and on our Eastern shores the observer will find in almost every ..."