CRUSTACEAN Synonyms

• marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces

• European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north

• decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer

• the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

• a quarrelsome grouch

• the edible flesh of any of various crabs

• a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body

• a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply

• direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

• scurry sideways like a crab

• fish for crab

• complain

• warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

• tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

• small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

• large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

• caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster

• flesh of a lobster

• any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae

• any of various edible decapod crustaceans

• shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible

• fish for prawns

• disparaging terms for small people

• any of various edible decapod crustaceans

• small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

• fish for shrimp

• small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods

• of or belonging to the class Crustacea

• being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell