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DECAPODA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Decapoda mean? 

DECAPODA (noun)
  The noun DECAPODA has 2 senses:

1. lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawnsplay

2. squids and cuttlefishesplay

  Familiarity information: DECAPODA used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DECAPODA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Decapoda; order Decapoda

Hypernyms ("Decapoda" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Decapoda"):

decapod; decapod crustacean (crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax)

Reptantia; suborder Reptantia (lobsters; crabs)

family Nephropsidae; Nephropsidae (in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae)

family Palinuridae; Palinuridae (spiny lobsters)

Astacidae; Astacura; family Astacidae (crayfish)

family Paguridae; Paguridae (hermit crabs)

Natantia; suborder Natantia (shrimp; prawns; etc.)

Holonyms ("Decapoda" is a member of...):

Malacostraca; subclass Malacostraca (largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Squids and cuttlefishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Decapoda; order Decapoda

Hypernyms ("Decapoda" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Decapoda"):

decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)

genus Loligo (squids)

genus Ommastrephes (a genus of Decapoda)

genus Architeuthis (giant squid)

family Sepiidae; Sepiidae (true cuttlefishes)

family Spirulidae; Spirulidae (coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications)

Holonyms ("Decapoda" is a member of...):

Dibranchia; Dibranchiata; subclass Dibranchia; subclass Dibranchiata (comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish))


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