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Decapod

//ˈdɛkəpɒd// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having ten legs. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    A decapod, the 0-10-0 (UK) and 2-10-0 steam locomotive configurations.
  2. 2
    Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish.
  3. 3
    cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones wordnet
  4. 4
    Any crustacean, of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.
  5. 5
    crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax wordnet
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  1. 6
    A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations. Sometimes capitalized.

    "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nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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