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macrurous

[muh-kroor-uhs]

adjective

Zoology.
  1. long-tailed, as a lobster (brachyurous ).



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Word History and Origins

Origin of macrurous1

1820–30; < New Latin Macrur ( a ) ( macruran ) + -ous
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Example Sentences

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“Macrurous” means having a long tail.

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The Crabs and Macrurous Crustacea, the Stomapoda, the Diastylidae, the Amphipoda and Isopoda, the Ostracoda and Daphnidae, the Copepoda and Parasita, the Cirripedes and Rhizocephala of our coast, representing the class of Crustacea with the deficiency only of the Phyllopoda and Xiphosura, furnished a long and varied, and at the same time intimately connected series, such as was at my command in no other class.

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