crustaceans
- plural of crustacean.
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Crustaceans are particularly sensitive to these types of water temperature fluctuations, Leising added, so as marine heat waves become more common and severe, the damage they cause will add up.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2023
Crustaceans, fish and shellfish can all have high levels of domoic acid in them without showing symptoms, the California Department of Public Health says.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022
Crustaceans, worms and aquatic insects constantly move between the zone and surface flow.
From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2022
Crustaceans, such as shrimp, lobsters, crabs, and crayfish, are the dominant aquatic arthropods.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
Isopod, ī′so-pod, n. a crustacean whose legs are all alike, any one of the Isop′oda, an order of higher Crustaceans in the division with unstalked eyes.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
