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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A family of caridean macrurous crustaceans in which the animal is slender and smooth, the first antennæ have two long slender flagella, the second antennæ have a long narrow scale and an elongated slender flagellurn, and the telson is slender and tapering. It includes the two genera Nematocarcinus and Stochasmus.
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