Lobster - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: lobster Page: 2VerbarMacrura
A subdivision of decapod Crustacea having the abdomen largely developed It includes the lobster prawn shrimp and many similar forms Cf Decapoda...
lobster backed
Of or pertaining to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War in America so called because of their red coats...
VerbarGregarinaelig
An order of Protozoa allied to the Rhizopoda and parasitic in other animals as in the earthworm lobster etc When adult they have a small wormlike body inclosing a nucleus but without external organs in one of the young stages they are amoeligbiform called also Gregarinida and Gregarinaria...
Crawfish
Any decapod crustacean of the family Astacidaelig genera Cambarus and Cambarus resembling the lobster but smaller and found in fresh waters Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis...
Bow net
A trap for lobsters being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel shaped entrance at one end...
Carcinology
The department of zooumllogy which treats of the Crustacea lobsters crabs etc called also malacostracology and crustaceology...
Crustacea
One of the classes of the arthropods including lobsters and crabs so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered...
Decapoda
The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps lobsters crabs etc...
Ecdysis
The act of shedding or casting off an outer cuticular layer as in the case of serpents lobsters etc a coming out as the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell exuviation...
Exuviaelig
Cast skins shells or coverings of animals any parts of animals which are shed or cast off as the skins of snakes the shells of lobsters etc...
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