Definition of Decapodous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decapodous

decapitated
decapitates
decapitating
decapitation
decapitations
decapitator
decapitators
decaplet
decaplets
decapod
decapod crustacean
decapoda
decapodal
decapodan
decapodans
decapodous (current term)
decapods
decapped
decapping
decaprenyl
decaprenyl pyrophosphate synthetase
decapsulate
decapsulated
decapsulates
decapsulating
decapsulation
decapsulations
decarb
decarbazine
decarbed

Literary usage of Decapodous

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

1. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by Taylor and Francis, William Jardine (1847)
"Microscopic Anatomy of the Shell of the decapodous Crustacea. ... The solid portion of the tegumentary apparatus of the decapodous Crustacea which is shed ..."

2. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers, Alexander Ireland (1884)
"... all provided with acetabula like the sepia, we regard it as the type of the first family of the decapodous tribe, or that which immediately succeeds the ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1882)
"Comparison with the decapodous limbs.—Having studied the homologies of the ... The thoracic decapodous legs are axially jointed, consisting of an axis or ..."

4. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1845)
"He has observed that the seminal secretion of the decapodous crustaceans undergoes successive developments in its course down the testis, but that it only ..."

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