noun
lobsters; crabs
• Syn: ↑suborder Reptantia
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Decapoda, ↑order Decapoda
• Member Meronyms: ↑Brachyura, ↑suborder Brachyura, ↑lobster, ↑Homaridae, ↑family Homaridae
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\\repˈtanch(ē)ə, -ntēə\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, neuter plural of reptant-, reptans, present participle of reptare to creep
: a suborder of decapod crustaceans comprising lobsters, crabs, hermit crabs, and related forms and having no stylocerite, the abdomen well developed to greatly reduced and frequently depressed but never laterally compressed, the rostrum reduced or absent and usually depressed if present, and the second antennal scale reduced or absent
Useful english dictionary. 2012.