Crossword-Solution: DECAPODS
We have 5 clues for the answer “DECAPODS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crustaceans with ten legs | 1 answer |
| Crabs and crayfish | 1 answer |
| Crayfish and prawns | 1 answer |
| Lobsters and crabs | 1 answer |
| Shrimp, lobster, crab, etc. | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EAGAT
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DECAPODS (5)
Ortmann's ("The geographical distribution of Freshwater Decapods and its bearing upon ancient geography", "Proc.
You ask about the skipping of the Zoea stage in fresh-water decapods: is this an illustration of acceleration? It most assuredly is, if acceleration means anything at all.
Again, another and more general illustration would be, if, among the marine decapods, a series could be formed in which the Zoea stage became less and less important in the development, and was relegated to younger and younger stages of the development, and finally disappeared in those to which you refer.
There they remain until hatched; but the young crawfish does not experience the metamorphosis peculiar to most decapods.
Protected by the abdomen of the Crab, or by the shell inhabited by the _Pagurus,_ the parasite also no longer required the calcareous test, in which, no doubt, the first Cirripedes settling upon these Decapods rejoiced.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Three Across, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1977–2019).