Crossword-Solution: SQUILLA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
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| mantis crab | 1 answer |
| type of mantis shrimp | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with SQUILLA (5)
Lastly, it is not improbable, that the youngest brood of the Mantis-Shrimps (_Squilla_) is also in the same case.
Soon after the young _Mysis_ casts the Nauplius-envelope it quits the brood-pouch of the mother.[6] For some time, owing to an undue importance being ascribed to the want of a particular branchial cavity, _Mysis, Leucifer,_ and _Phyllosoma_ were referred to the Stomapoda, which are now again limited, as originally by Latreille, to the Mantis-shrimps (_Squilla_), the Glass-shrimps (_Erichthus_) and their nearest allies.
The eggs of _ Squilla,_ like those removed from the body of the Crab, die because they are deprived of the rapid stream of fresh water which the mother drives through her hole for the purpose of her own respiration.
The accompanying representation of the embryo of _Squilla_ shows that it possesses a long, segmented abdomen without appendages, a bilobate tail, six pairs of limbs, and a short heart; the latter only pulsates weakly and slowly.
This is the case with the large compound eyes,—with the structure of the heart,—with the raptorial feet in _Squilla,_—and with the powerful, muscular, straightly-extended abdomen in _Palæmon, Alpheus, Hippolyte,_ and the Hermit Crabs.