decapoda
English Thesaurus
1. squids and cuttlefishes (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | animal order, |
| definition | : | the order of animals (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | decapod, |
| definition | : | cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | genus loligo, |
| definition | : | squids (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | genus ommastrephes, |
| definition | : | a genus of Decapoda (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | genus architeuthis, |
| definition | : | giant squid (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family sepiidae, sepiidae, |
| definition | : | true cuttlefishes (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family spirulidae, spirulidae, |
| definition | : | coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | dibranchia, dibranchiata, subclass dibranchia, subclass dibranchiata, |
| definition | : | comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish) (noun.animal) |
2. lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | animal order, |
| definition | : | the order of animals (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | decapod, decapod crustacean, |
| definition | : | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | reptantia, suborder reptantia, |
| definition | : | lobsters; crabs (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family nephropsidae, nephropsidae, |
| definition | : | in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family palinuridae, palinuridae, |
| definition | : | spiny lobsters (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | astacidae, astacura, family astacidae, |
| definition | : | crayfish (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | family paguridae, paguridae, |
| definition | : | hermit crabs (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | natantia, suborder natantia, |
| definition | : | shrimp; prawns; etc. (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | malacostraca, subclass malacostraca, |
| definition | : | largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies (noun.animal) |
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