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Armadillo :: Armadillo (n.) A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.

Homarus :: Homarus (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters..

Podobranch :: Podobranch (n.) One of the branchiae attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.

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.

Ophthalmite :: Ophthalmite (n.) An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea.

Shellfish :: Shellfish (n.) Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs..

Millerite :: Millerite (n.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites..

Stalking-horse :: Stalk-eyed (a.) Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans..

Entomostraca :: Entomostraca (n. pl.) One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera..

Crustaceology :: Crustaceology (n.) That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.

Spermatophore :: Spermatophore (n.) A capsule or pocket inclosing a number of spermatozoa. They are present in many annelids, brachiopods, mollusks, and crustaceans. In cephalopods the structure of the capsule is very complex..

Oviferous :: Oviferous (a.) Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched..

Paraphagma :: Paraphagma (n.) One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea.

Remiped :: Remiped (a.) Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of certain crustaceans and insects.

Coxa :: Coxa (n.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

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

Crustaceous :: Crustaceous (a.) Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.

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

Crustacean :: Crustacean (n.) An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.

Gribble :: Gribble (n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America..

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