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Crustific :: Crustific (a.) Producing or forming a crust or skin.

Insect :: Insect (n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates..

Crust :: Crust (n.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc..

Eruption :: Eruption (n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion..

Crustalogy :: Crustalogy (n.) Crustaceology.

Incrust :: Incrust (v. t.) To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar..

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

Macrura :: Macrura (n. pl.) A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms. Cf. Decapoda..

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

Shell :: Shell (v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc..

Palpus :: Palpus (n.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera..

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..

Anomuran :: Anomuran (a.) Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans..

Uran-ochre :: Uran-ochre (n.) A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure..

Endopodite :: Endopodite (n.) The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone..

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..

Vesbium :: Vesbium (n.) A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.

Epimeron :: Epimeron (n.) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.

Sea Crayfish :: Sea crayfish () Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster..

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