Crustacean Definition

krŭ-stāshən
crustaceans
noun
crustaceans
Any of a subphylum (Crustacea) of arthropods, including shrimps, crabs, barnacles, and lobsters, that usually live in the water and breathe through gills: they have a hard outer shell and jointed appendages.
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adjective
Of crustaceans.
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Other Word Forms of Crustacean

Noun

Singular:
crustacean
Plural:
crustacea, crustaceans

Origin of Crustacean

  • From New Latin Crūstācea class name neuter pl. of crūstāceus hard-shelled from Latin crusta shell kreus- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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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