Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having some of the legs close by the mouth, as a mantis-shrimp; of or pertaining to the Stomatopoda. Also stomatopodous, stomapodous.
- noun A member of the Stomatopoda, in any sense.
- noun Also
stomapod .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Stomatopoda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of the Stomatopoda; a mantis shrimp.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a kind of crustacean
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's a shrimp-like animal called the stomatopod, and here's how it moves on the beaches of Panama: it actually rolls, and it can even roll uphill.
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It's a shrimp-like animal called the stomatopod, and here's how it moves on the beaches of Panama: it actually rolls, and it can even roll uphill.
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It's a shrimp-like animal called the stomatopod, and here's how it moves on the beaches of Panama: it actually rolls, and it can even roll uphill.
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And interestingly, this turns out -- the stomatopod saddle turns out to be the first described biological hyperbolic paraboloid spring.
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And so today I'll talk about the extreme stomatopod strike, work that I've done in collaboration with Wyatt Korff and Roy Caldwell.
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And interestingly, this turns out -- the stomatopod saddle turns out to be the first described biological hyperbolic paraboloid spring.
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Now, the other type of mantis shrimp is the smasher stomatopod, and these guys open up snails for a living.
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And this is a spearing mantis shrimp, or stomatopod.
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And so today I'll talk about the extreme stomatopod strike, work that I've done in collaboration with Wyatt Korff and Roy Caldwell.
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And this is a spearing mantis shrimp, or stomatopod.
chained_bear commented on the word stomatopod
Var. stomapod, which has an interesting page just because squillian is on it.
August 27, 2008