decapod

Borrowed from French décapode, see deca- +‎ -pod.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkəpɒd/

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decapod (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Having ten legs.

decapod (plural decapods)

1. (zoology) Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish.
2. (zoology) Any crustacean, of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.
3. (rail transport) A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations. Sometimes capitalized.
   • 1956 October, R. S. McNaught, “Locomotive Nicknames”, in Railway Magazine, pages 698-699:

     Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.

• decapodal
• decapodan
• decapodid
• decapodous
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Borrowed from French décapode.

decapod n (plural decapode)

1. decapod