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STOMATOPOD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A kind of crustacean

Synonyms:

stomatopod; stomatopod crustacean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("stomatopod" is a kind of...):

crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stomatopod"):

mantis crab; mantis shrimp (tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages)

Holonyms ("stomatopod" is a member of...):

order Stomatopoda; Stomatopoda (mantis shrimps)

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