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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decapod/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decapod/#x1)
- Lobsters and prawns are decapods too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decapod/#x2)
- The front two legs of many decapods are claws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decapod/#x3)
- Decapods have a hard shell called an exoskeleton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decapod/#x4)
- We counted the legs to prove the crayfish was a decapod. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decapod/#x5)
- Some squids are also called decapods because they have ten arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decapod/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decapod/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.