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Definition: Crustacea |
CrustaceaNoun1. Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Crustacea" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonym: CrustaceaSynonym: class Crustacea (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crustacea |
| English words defined with "Crustacea": Anisopoda, Anomoura, Antennule, Aptera, Argulus, Arthrostraca ♦ Basipodite, Beach flea ♦ Carcinology, Cephalothorax, Chelura, Clasper, Crustaceology, Cumacea, Cypris ♦ Edriophthalma, Endognath, Endophragma, Endopodite, Endosternite, Endostoma, Epipodite, Epistome, Exopodite, Eyestalk ♦ Footstalk ♦ green gland ♦ Hepato-pancreas, Holostraca ♦ Ischiocerite, Ischiopodite ♦ Laemodipoda, Leptostraca, Lernaeacea, Lernean ♦ Macrura, Malacostraca, Marsupiate, Maxilliped, Meropodite ♦ Nebalia, Neocarida ♦ Oostegite, Ophthalmite, Oviferous ♦ Paragnathus, Paraphagma, Parasita, Pectostraca, Peraeopod, Podobranch, Podophthalmia, Procerite ♦ Rhizocephala ♦ Scaphocerite, Sclerodermite, Scyllarian, Shell gland, Siphonostomata, Stomapoda, subclass Malacostraca, Supra-esophageal ♦ Telson, Thalassinian, Thoracostraca, Tracheata ♦ Uropod ♦ Wood borer, Wood louse ♦ Zoea. (references) |
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Economic History | Austria | Since Austria is a landlocked country, all marine fish, shellfish, and crustacea must be imported. (references) |
Austria | Of the total import value around 40% account for fresh/frozen fish, 10% for dried and/or smoked fish, 10% for fresh/frozen crustacea and molluscs, and 40% for further processed fish, crustacea and molluscs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Crustacea" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Crustacea" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Crustacea": class Crustacea. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crustacea | 17 |
class crustacea | 4 |
crustacea pentastomida | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Crustacea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ç"²å£³çº². (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rákok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ç"²æ®»ç¶± . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ã"ã†ã‹ãã"ã†. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | ê°‘ê°ë¥˜ (shellfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ny crustee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ustaceacray crustáceos (crustaceans). (various references) ракообразные. (various references) ljuskar (crustacean). (various references) eklembacaklı kabuklular. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Crustacea": crustacean, crustaceans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Crustacea" (pronounced 'Crus*ta"ce*a'): Alcyonacea, Cetacea, Cumacea, Gorgonacea, Gorgoniacea, Lernaeacea, miscellanea, Ostracea, Pennatulacea, Priapulacea, Sipunculacea, Testacea, Veneracea, Zoanthacea. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: accurate. | |
-2 letters: accrues, accurst, accuser, arcuate, caesura, carates, carcase, curates, saccate. | |
-3 letters: acarus, accrue, accuse, acuate, acuter, acutes, arecas, aurate, cactus, caesar, carate, carats, carets, cartes, caster, caters, causer, cercus, cesura, crates, cruces, cruets, cruset, cuesta, curate, curets, eructs, reacts, reatas, recast, rectus, recuts, saucer, scarce, traces, truces, urates. | |
-4 letters: aceta, acres, acute, arcus. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: crustacean. | |
+2 letters: autocracies, caricatures, crustaceans, spectacular. | |
+3 letters: acculturates, accurateness, articulacies, recalculates, spectaculars. | |
+4 letters: spectacularly, unspectacular. | |
+5 letters: accuratenesses, baccalaureates, circumvallates, counterattacks, inarticulacies, nonspectacular, recalculations. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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