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decapod (n.)

1819, "ten-legged animal, type of crustacean having ten legs" (crabs, lobsters, shrimp), from French décapode (1806), from Modern Latin Decapoda (animalia), from Greek dekapoda, neuter plural of dekapous "ten-footed" (see ten + foot (n.)). From 1885 in reference to a type of locomotive with ten driving-wheels.

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Definitions of decapod from WordNet

decapod (n.)
crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax;
Synonyms: decapod crustacean
decapod (n.)
cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones;
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