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Cranioclast :: Cranioclast (n.) An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases..

Lignification :: Lignification (n.) A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin..

Procrustes :: Procrustes (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes..

Scyllarian :: Scyllarian (n.) One of a family (Scyllaridae) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennae. Also used adjectively..

Stipes :: Stipes (n.) The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.

Crustalogy :: Crustalogy (n.) Crustaceology.

Jaw :: "Jaw (n.) One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine..

Thalassinian :: Thalassinian (n.) Any species of Thalaassinidae, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen..

Squelch :: Squelch (v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

Xylophagous :: Xylophagous (a.) Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks..

Apus :: Apus (n.) A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.

Crush :: Crush (n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception..

Scud :: Scud (n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.

Tracheata :: Tracheata (n.pl.) An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheae, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiae..

Crevet :: Crevet (n.) A crucible or melting pot; a cruset.

Pedireme :: Pedireme (n.) A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars..

Argulus :: Argulus (n.) A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura..

Oviferous :: Oviferous (a.) Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched..

Adactylous :: Adactylous (a.) Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).

Ommateum :: Ommateum (n.) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans..

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