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Squillitic :: Squilla (n.) Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.

Paste :: Paste (n.) Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough..

Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like..

Intersternal :: Intersternal (a.) Between the sternal; -- said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.

Pygidium :: Pygidium (n.) The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite..

Wernerian :: Wernerian (a.) Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system..

Epistome :: Epistome (n.) The region between the antennae and the mouth, in Crustacea..

Hydrothermal :: Hydrothermal (a.) Of or pertaining to hot water; -- used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe..

Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere..

Sassoline :: Sassoline (n.) Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence..

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..

Adactylous :: Adactylous (a.) Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).

Protopodite :: Protopodite (n.) The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean..

Endognath :: Endognath (n.) The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

Chitin :: Chitin (n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin..

Antennule :: Antennule (n.) A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennae or feelers of Crustacea.

Apodeme :: Apodeme (n.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea..

Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans..

Crustacea :: Crustacea (n. pl.) One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered..

Tarsus :: Tarsus (n.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.

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