CRUSTACEAN Synonyms
There are 6 hypernyms of the word crustacean. (close relations)
Definition of CRUSTACEAN
Best Alternative Words for CRUSTACEAN
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barnacle | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces • European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | ||||||||
crab | nounn | |||||||
noun • decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers • (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer • the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22 • a quarrelsome grouch • the edible flesh of any of various crabs • a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body • a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply verb • direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind • scurry sideways like a crab • fish for crab • complain | ||||||||
crayfish | nounn | |||||||
noun • warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California • tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly • small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster • large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | ||||||||
langoustine | nounn | |||||||
noun • caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | ||||||||
lobster | nounn | |||||||
noun • flesh of a lobster • any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae | ||||||||
prawn | nounn | |||||||
noun • any of various edible decapod crustaceans • shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible verb • fish for prawns | ||||||||
shrimp | nounn | |||||||
noun • disparaging terms for small people • any of various edible decapod crustaceans • small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible verb • fish for shrimp | ||||||||
hermit crab | nounn | |||||||
noun • small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods | ||||||||
crustaceous | adjectiveadj | |||||||
adjective • of or belonging to the class Crustacea • being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell |