1.
[syn: decapod crustacean, decapod]
2. cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Decapod \Dec"a*pod\ (d[e^]k"[.a]*p[o^]d), n. [Cf. F.
d['e]capode.] (Zool.)
A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the
Decapoda. Also used adjectively, as a decapod crustacean.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
decapod
n 1: crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of
locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
[syn: decapod crustacean, decapod]
2: cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones