Definition of crus

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Crus (n.) Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain..

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Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
Podophthalmia :: Podophthalmia (n. pl.) The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda..
Scale :: Scale (n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler..
Paraphagma :: Paraphagma (n.) One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea.
Pectostraca :: Pectostraca (n. pl.) A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia..
Basipodite :: Basipodite (n.) The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.
Swashway :: Swashing (a.) Resounding; crushing.
Artemia :: Artemia (n.) A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.
Crust :: Crust (n.) The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow..
Marsupium :: Marsupium (n.) The pouch, formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen, in which marsupials carry their young; also, a pouch for similar use in other animals, as certain Crustacea..
Post-abdomen :: Post-abdomen (n.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.
Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.
Millerite :: Millerite (n.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites..
Crush :: Crush (n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
Overpress :: Overpress (v. t.) To bear upon with irresistible force; to crush; to overwhelm.
Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere..
Stilt :: Stilpnomelane (n.) A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina..
Ommateum :: Ommateum (n.) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans..
Seta :: Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss..
Interepimeral :: Interepimeral (a.) Between the epimeral plates of insects and crustaceans.
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