Crossword-Solution: DECAPOD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decapod | n. | A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “DECAPOD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A crustacean with five pairs of walking legs | 1 answer |
| CALLINASSA | 1 answer |
| Crab or lobster, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Crab or shrimp, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Crab, lobster or shrimp | 1 answer |
| Crayfish or crab, for one | 1 answer |
| Crustacean with 10 legs | 1 answer |
| Crustacean, as a shrimp or a lobster. | 1 answer |
| Lobster or crab, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Lobster or shrimp. | 1 answer |
| cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones | 1 answer |
| creature, such as a crab, with five pairs of walking limbs | 1 answer |
| Crab, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Lobster, for one | 3 answers |
| Squid | 6 answers |
| Crustacean | 16 answers |
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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.
Hint 2 anagram
EZMECA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DECAPOD (5)
They dig somewhat after the manner of the fluviatile long-tailed decapod crustaceans, of the genera Thoracostraca, the common crawfish, you know.
Mecznikow has recently observed the development of _Nebalia,_ and concludes from his observations “that _Nebalia,_ during its embryonal life, passes through the Nauplius- and Zoëa-stages, which in the Decapoda occur partly (in _Penëus_) in the free state.” “Therefore,” says he, “I regard Nebalia as a Phyllopodiform Decapod.” The youngest larvæ [of the Phyllopoda] are Nauplii, which we have already met with exceptionally in some Prawns, and which we shall now find reproduced almost without exception.
The Hermit-crab (_Pagurus Bernhardus_) is a Decapod Crustacean--that is to say, he resembles a very small Crab.
Finally, I may remark that in Pollicipes, looking to the whole nervous system, the state of concentration nearly equals that in certain macrourous decapod crustaceans, for instance the _Astacus marinus_, of which a figure is given by Milne Edwards.
Owen in strongly opposing this identification, and in regarding such tentacle as the equivalent of a whole lobe or arm of a Decapod or Octopod Dibranch.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).