decapod

Noun
  1. Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax (synset 101978787)
    is a type of: crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
    subtypes:
    • crab - decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
    • lobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
    • crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
    • hermit crab - small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
    • shrimp - small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
    • prawn - shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
    • tropical prawn - edible tropical and warm-water prawn
    belongs to: decapoda, order decapoda - lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns
    same as: decapod crustacean
  2. Cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones (synset 101973735)
    is a type of: cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk - marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
    subtypes:
    • squid - widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
    • cuttle, cuttlefish - ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
    • spirula, spirula peronii - a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
    belongs to: decapoda, order decapoda - squids and cuttlefishes

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