Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The ten-footed crustaceans; those Crustacea which have five pairs of legs or ambulatory appendages, at least one pair of which is chelate; an order of podophthalmic or stalk-eyed Crustacea. See cuts under Podophthalmia and stalk-eyed.
  • The ten-armed cephalopods; a division of the dibranchiate or acetabuliferous Cephalopoda, as distinguished from Octopoda, having two long tentacles or cephalic processes (besides the eight arms or rays), bearing suckers only at their ends: also called Decacera.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun plural (Zoöl.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.
  • proper noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A taxonomic order within the superorder Eucarida — the decapod crustacea.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns
  • noun squids and cuttlefishes

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek δέκα (deka, "ten") + πούς (pous, "foot")

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Examples

  • Studies and fisheries of pandalid shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pandalidae) in the Northern Hemisphere: A review in the XXI century eve (with special reference to Russia), pp. 9 – 31.

    Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009

  • In the paper "A new species of Cyrtomaia Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae) from Micronesia" by B.R. de Forges and P.K.L. Ng in Zootaxa 1409: 61-67 (2007) a new species of Cyrtomaia deep-sea spider crab.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Studies and fisheries of pandalid shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pandalidae) in the Northern Hemisphere: A review in the XXI century eve (with special reference to Russia), pp. 9 – 31.

    Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009

  • The breeding behaviour and migrations of the terrestrial crab Gecarcoidea natalis (Decapoda: Brachyura).

    Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests 2008

  • However, they are not true shrimp (order Decapoda), but belong to the order Mysidacea, a large, almost exclusively marine order.

    Crustacea 2008

  • A note on aggregation behaviour and mass mortality of the spider crab Maja squinado (Herbst) (Decapoda, Majidae) in shallow water on the north Co Wexford coast.

    Crabs on Roney Beach Dr. Eugene F.M. O'Loughlin 2008

  • The freshwater crabs of Sri Lanka (Decapoda: Brachyura: Parathelphusidae).

    Biological diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka 2008

  • A note on aggregation behaviour and mass mortality of the spider crab Maja squinado (Herbst) (Decapoda, Majidae) in shallow water on the north Co Wexford coast.

    My Academic Publications Dr. Eugene F.M. O'Loughlin 2008

  • Systematics and ecology of the land crabs (Decapoda: Coenobitidae, Grapsidae, and Gecarcinidae) of the Tokelau Islands, central Pacific.

    Western Polynesian tropical moist forests 2007

  • A new genus and species of goneplacid crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Goneplacidae) from the Caribbean.

    All that matters 2005

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