Crustacean Synonyms

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Synonyms for Crustacean

barnacle
The definition of a barnacle is a small crustacean that affixes itself to surfaces such as a rock, a large sea animal, or the part of a boat that is in the water.
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water-flea
Any of various small chiefly freshwater branchiopod crustaceans of the order Cladocera, having a bivalve carapace and typically swimming with jerking flealike motions, and including the daphnias.
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homarine
A metabolite found in many molluscs.
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homaroid
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macrural
(Zoology) macrurous
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crustaceous
Of or like a crust
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lobster
Any of several edible marine decapod crustaceans of the family Nephropidae, especially of the genus Homarus, having stalked eyes, long antennae, a pair of large pincers, and a cylindrical body.
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squilla
Stomatopod
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shrimp
The flesh of one of these crustaceans, used as food.
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louse
Any of an order (Anoplura) of small, flat, wingless insects with sucking mouthparts, parasitic on the skin or hair of humans and some other mammals; esp., the human body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis) and head louse (P. h. capitis)
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prawn
Any of various shrimps, especially one that is large or inhabits fresh water.
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Words Related to Crustacean

shellfish
Any of various edible aquatic invertebrate animals having a shell, especially mollusks such as clams and oysters, and crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.
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mollusc
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gastropod
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bivalve
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decapod
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isopod
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crustacea
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hydroid
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rotifer
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tunicate
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arthropod
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amphipod
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bryozoa
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ciliate
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Crustacean Sentence Examples

  • It is then, if lucky, eaten by some crustacean, or insect, more rarely by a fish.

  • The equivalent terms applied by Sars are Anostraca, Notostraca, Conchostraca, involving a termination already appropriated to higher divisions of the Crustacean class, for which it ought to be reserved.

  • No Crustacean exhibits this trilobite form.

  • The most aberrant type of larva is that of the genus Prosopistoma, which was originally described as an entomostracous crustacean on account of the presence of a large carapace overlapping the greater part of the body.

  • The cercaria swims freely for a time and either encysts directly on grass or weeds or it enters a second host which may be another mollusc, an insect, crustacean or fish, and then encysts.

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