Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
amphipod | a crustacean of the largely marine order Amphipoda, that includes e.g. sand-hoppers. |
argulus | a genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse > ARGULI. |
barnacle | a cirripede crustacean that adheres to rocks and ship bottoms. |
barnacled | covered with barnacles. |
brachyuran | any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs. |
branchiopod | any of a subclass of Crustacea with numerous flattened, leaf-shaped, lobed swimming-feet. |
camaron maron | a kind of freshwater crustacean similar to a crayfish. |
cancroid | a member of the crab family. |
cirrhipede cirrhopod cirriped cirripede | a barnacle or other parasitic marine crustacean. |
cladoceran | a small crustacean, aka water flea. |
copepod | a shrimp-like crustacean. |
crab | a marine crustacean; (verb) to obstruct, frustrate > CRABS, CRABBING, CRABBED. |
crablike | like a crab. |
crawdad crawdaddy | a crayfish. |
crawfish | any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster; (verb) to retreat or back out, especially from a position in which one is being challenged > CRAWFISHES, CRAWFISHING, CRAWFISHED. |
cray crayfish | a CRAWFISH. |
crevette | a shrimp or prawn. |
crustacea | a large class of arthropod animals with hard shells. |
crustacean | a member of the Crustacea. |
cumacean | a small crustacean living on the seabed. |
cyclops | a genus of freshwater copepods; pl. CYCLOPS; a one-eyed monster; pl. CYCLOPES. N.B. no CYCLOP*. |
cyprid cypris | any member of the Cypris genus of freshwater ostracod crustaceans. Pl CYPRIDS, CYPRIDES. |
daphnia daphnid | any member of the crustacean genus Daphnia, water-fleas. |
decapod | any ten-legged crustacean, including shrimps and lobsters. |
decapodal decapodan decapodous | relating to decapods, an order of crustaceans with ten feet, that includes crabs and lobsters. |
euphausid euphausiid | one of a genus of shrimplike crustaceans. |
gilgie jilgie | a YABBY, a small freshwater crayfish. |
gribble | a small crustacean which destroys submerged timber. |
isopod isopodan | any crustacean of the order Isopoda, that includes woodlice etc. |
isopodous | of or like an ISOPOD, a kind of small crustacean. |
jilgie | see GILGIE. |
koura | a New Zealand crayfish. |
krill | a small shrimplike creature eaten by whales > KRILLS. |
langostino langouste langoustine | the spiny lobster. |
limuloid | the king crab. |
lobster | a large strong-clawed edible crustacean; (verb) to fish for lobsters > LOBSTERS, LOBSTERING, LOBSTERED. |
macropod | any one of a group of crabs remarkable for the length of their legs, aka spider crab. |
macrural macrurous | pertaining to, like or belonging to the crustacean division including lobsters, prawns, etc. Cf. MACRURAN. |
macruran macruroid | a creature belonging to the crustacean division including lobsters, prawns > MACRURANS. |
maron | see CAMARON. |
megalops | the larval stage of a crab > MEGALOPSES. |
mudbug | a crayfish. |
mysid | a small crustacean. |
nauplial | of or like a NAUPLIUS, the larval form of certain crustaceans. |
nauplioid | shaped like a NAUPLIUS, a larval form in crustaceans. |
nauplius | a larval form in crustaceans > NAUPLII. |
ochidore | Charles Kingsley's name (not otherwise known) for a shore-crab. |
oniscoid | like a woodlouse. [Gk. oniscos, little ass]. |
ostracod ostracode | a minute freshwater crustacean with a bivalve carapace. |
ostracodan | one of a class of minute crustacea with bivalve shells. |
pagurian pagurid | a member of the hermit crab family. |
partan | an edible British crab. [Perh. ult. f. OIr. partaing, red]. |
phyllopod | one of an order of crustaceans whose swimming and respiratory appendages resemble leaves. |
pleon | the abdomen of a crustacean, bearing the swimming legs > PLEONS. [Gk. plein, to swim]. |
prawn | a small edible crustacean; (verb) to fish for prawns. |
scampi | crustaceans of the genus Nephrops, often fried in breadcrumbs > SCAMPIS or SCAMPIES. [Ital. scampi, pl. of scampo, shrimp]. |
schizopod | one of the Schizopoda, shrimp-like crustaceans. |
shrimp | a small edible crustacean; (verb) to fish for shrimps > SHRIMPS, SHRIMPING, SHRIMPED. |
shrimpy | full of shrimps > SHRIMPIER, SHRIMPIEST. |
sowbug | a WOODLOUSE. |
spatfall | a mass of planktonic shellfish larvae which has settled on the seabed prior to developing into adults. |
squilla | a mantis shrimp of genus Squilla > SQUILLAE or SQUILLAS. |
woodlouse | any small isopod crustacean of the suborder Oniscoidea > WOODLICE. |
xiphosuran | of the Xiphosura, an order of Arthropoda of which the only survivors are the king crabs. |
yabbie yabby | a small freshwater crayfish: YABBIES. |