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cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
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cephalopod,
cephalopod mollusk marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
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decapoda,
order decapoda squids and cuttlefishes
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squid widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
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cuttle,
cuttlefish ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
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crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
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decapod crustacean |
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crustacean any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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decapoda,
order decapoda squids and cuttlefishes
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crab a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
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lobster any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
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crawdaddy,
crawdad,
crawfish,
crayfish small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
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hermit crab small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
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shrimp small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
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prawn shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
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