Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - crustacean
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(crustaceans) A crustacean is an animal with a hard shell and several pairs of legs, which usually lives in water. Crabs, lobsters, and shrimps are crustaceans. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Date: 1835 any of a large class (Crustacea) of mostly aquatic mandibulate arthropods that have a chitinous or calcareous and chitinous exoskeleton, a pair of often much modified appendages on each segment, and two pairs of antennae and that include the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, wood lice, water fleas, and barnacles • ~ adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. any arthropod of the class Crustacea, having a hard shell and usu. aquatic, e.g. the crab, lobster, and shrimp. --adj. of or relating to crustaceans. Derivatives crustaceology n. crustaceous adj. Etymology: mod.L crustaceus f. crusta: see CRUST ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1835, from Mod.L. Crustacea, the class name, neut. pl. of adj. crustaceus "having a crust or shell," from L. crusta "crust, hard shell." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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