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Ichthyophthira :: Ichthyophthira (n. pl.) A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes..

Monocule :: Monocule (n.) A small crustacean with one median eye.

Decapod :: Decapod (n.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively..

Epizoon :: Epizoon (n.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoon. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans..

Peraeopod :: Peraeopod (n.) One of the thoracic legs of a crustacean. See Illust. of Crustacea.

Omostegite :: Omostegite (n.) The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.

Tarsus :: Tarsus (n.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.

Facet :: Facet (n.) One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.

Remiped :: Remiped (n.) An animal having limbs like oars, especially one of certain crustaceans..

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

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

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

Pagurian :: Pagurian (n.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit..

Gnathopodite :: Gnathopodite (n.) Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds..

Pygidium :: Pygidium (n.) The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite..

Ommatidium :: Ommatidium (n.) One of the single eyes forming the compound eyes of crustaceans, insects, and other invertebrates..

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

Hair :: Hair (n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth..

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..

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..

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