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| antenna |
a thin, sensitive appendage on the head of an insect or crustacean, used to feel with. [1/2 definitions] |
| claw |
a pincerlike appendage on a crustacean or insect. [1/6 definitions] |
| crayfish |
a spiny lobster, or similar marine crustacean. [1/2 definitions] |
| crustaceous |
denoting a crustacean. [1/2 definitions] |
| Cyclops |
a minute freshwater crustacean with a centrally placed eye on the front of the head. [1/2 definitions] |
| exoskeleton |
an external supporting structure such as the shell of a crustacean. (Cf. endoskeleton.) |
| flea |
any similar insect or crustacean that moves like the flea. [1/2 definitions] |
| ommatidium |
any of the individual photoreceptors that form the compound eye of an insect, crustacean, or the like. |
| opossum shrimp |
a small shrimplike crustacean, the female of which carries her eggs in a pouch between the legs. |
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