decapod

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noun crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
noun cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones

Borrowed from French décapode. By surface analysis, deca- + -pod.

“If he were, we would be sure to have heard of it from the deep-sea Decapods. — The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting
Conseil used the methods of our mentor Professor Milne-Edwards, who puts the decapods in three divisions: Brachyura, Macrura, and Anomura. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

decapod crustacean

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