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Scale :: Scale (n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler..

Ground :: Ground (n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it..

Turnover :: Turnover (n.) A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials..

Marmoration :: Marmoration (n.) A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble.

Urogastric :: Urogastric (a.) Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle..

Coxa :: Coxa (n.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

Crustaceous :: Crustaceous (a.) Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.

Dash :: Dash (v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin..

Sea Louse :: Sea louse () Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes..

Rock :: Rock (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds..

Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc..

Neocarida :: Neocarida (n. pl.) The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata..

Crustaceousness :: Crustaceousness (n.) The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.

Thorax :: Thorax (n.) The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix..

Geanticlinal :: Geanticlinal (n.) An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal..

Swimming :: Swimmeret (n.) One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming..

Silicon :: Silicon (n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. A

Paraphagma :: Paraphagma (n.) One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea.

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