crustacean

English

Etymology

From Crustacea +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹʌsˈteɪʃən/

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Noun

crustacean (plural crustaceans or crustacea)

1. Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:crustacean

Derived terms

• macrocrustacean
• microcrustacean
• noncrustacean
• Rustacean

 

Translations

arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea

• Afrikaans: skaaldier (af), krustasee (af)
• Armenian: խեցգետնանմաններ (xecʻgetnanmanner)
• Asturian: crustaceu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: xərçəngkimilər
• Bashkir: ҡыҫала (qıśala)
• Belarusian: ракападобныя (rakapadóbnyja)
• Breton: kresteneg m
• Bulgarian: ракообра́зно (bg) n (rakoobrázno)
• Catalan: crustaci (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 甲殼類 / 甲壳类 (kah-khak-lūi)

  Mandarin: 介蟲 / 介虫 (jièchóng), 甲殼動物 / 甲壳动物 (zh) (jiǎqiào dòngwù)

• Cornish: krestennek m
• Czech: korýš (cs) m
• Dutch: schaaldier (nl) n, crustacee f
• Esperanto: krustaco
• Finnish: äyriäinen (fi)
• French: crustacé (fr) m
• Galician: crustáceo (gl) m
• Georgian: კიბოსნაირნი (ḳibosnairni)
• German: Krustentier (de) n, Krebstier (de) n, Schalentier (de) n
• Greek: μαλακόστρακο n (malakóstrako)
• Gujarati: સકવચ (sakvac)
• Hawaiian: pāpaka
• Hindi: कठिनी (hi) (kaṭhinī)
• Hungarian: rák (hu)
• Icelandic: krabbadýr (is)
• Ido: krustaceo (io)
• Irish: crústach m
• Italian: crostaceo (it) m
• Japanese: 甲殻類 (ja) (こうかくるい, kōkakurui)
• Kazakh: шаянтәрізділер (şaäntärızdıler)
• Korean: 갑각류(甲殼類) (ko) (gapgangnyu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qalikdar (ku)

• Latvian: vēžveidīgie
• Lithuanian: vėžiagyviai
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: dwaarsloper

• Luxembourgish: Crustacé m or f
• Macedonian: раковите (rakovite)
• Maori: mawhiti
• Navajo: chʼosh bikágí ntłʼizí
• North Frisian: kraaben
• Norwegian Bokmål: krepsdyr
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krepsdyr
• Persian: سخت‌پوست (saxt-pust)
• Polish: skorupiak (pl) m
• Portuguese: crustáceo (pt) m
• Quechua: qaraqruyuwa
• Romanian: crustaceu (ro)
• Russian: ракообра́зное (ru) n (rakoobráznoje)
• Slovak: kôrovce
• Slovene: raki
• Spanish: crustáceo (es) m
• Swedish: kräftdjur (sv) n
• Tongan: monumanu fingota ngeʻesi fefeka
• Turkish: kabuklular (tr)
• Ukrainian: ракоподібні (rakopodibni)
• Volapük: koanaf (vo), krustaf (vo), krustanim (vo)
• Welsh: cramennog (cy) m, crestennog m, crestog m

References

• Crustacean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Crustacea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Crustacea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons