decapod
pronunciation
How to pronounce decapod in British English:
UK ['dekəpɒd]
How to pronounce decapod in American English:
US ['dekəˌpɒd]
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- Noun:
- crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
- cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
Word Origin
- decapod (n.)
- 1835 as a type of crustacean having 10 legs, from French décapode (1806), from Modern Latin Decapoda (animalia), from Greek dekapoda, neuter plural of dekapous "ten-footed" (see ten + foot (n.)). From 1888 as a type of locomotive.
Example
- 1. Studies on the decapod crustacean biodiversity of the western pacific .
- 2. The database of breeding and culture techniques about decapod crustaceans .
- 3. Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster .
- 4. Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers ; most are edible .
- 5. Nuclear dna content variation associated with muscle fiber hypertrophic growth in decapod crustaceans .