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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spurious genus of crustaceans, based on certain larval forms called by Leach Phyllosoma clavicornis. See
glass-crab .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also
glass-crab , andglass-shrimp .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The thin, flat, transparent
larval stage of certainlobsters .
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