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English
Etymology
Crustacea + -an
Pronunciation
Noun
crustacean (plural crustaceans or crustacea)
- Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice.
Hyponyms
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
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References
Crustacean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Crustacea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Crustacea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons 
