decapod

«decapod» in Mova's school dictionary: a crustacean with ten legs, such as a crab, lobster… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a decapod, decapods)

meaning for a pupil

(science) A decapod is a crustacean with ten legs, such as a crab, lobster, shrimp, prawn or crayfish. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about animal groups: decapods belong to the crustaceans, which belong to the arthropods (animals with jointed legs and a hard outer skeleton). Two of the ten legs are often big claws (pincers).

examples

• A crab is a decapod because it has ten legs. tree →
• Lobsters and prawns are decapods too. tree →
• The front two legs of many decapods are claws. tree →
• Decapods have a hard shell called an exoskeleton. tree →
• We counted the legs to prove the crayfish was a decapod. tree →
• Some squids are also called decapods because they have ten arms. tree →

note

Countable. «Deca» means ten; «pod» means foot. Note: in older books, squids were also called decapods (ten arms), so the word has two scientific uses.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «decapod» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.