Crustacean

//kɹʌsˈteɪʃən//

"Crustacean" in a Sentence (7 examples)

The red king crab is a large crustacean.

Customer Tian-feng GU, a Chinese tourist who studies in Boston, raves about the restaurant's tasty crustacean.

Roly polies are actually a kind of crustacean.

The lobster is a marine crustacean.

In cooperation with the Bureau of Fisheries he made several motion pictures of crustacean life.

It is feared that any major change in its chemistry will render many of these species extinct. Likewise, if the temperature is raised by factory discharge, predators now kept out of the lake by its frigidity will invade and annihilate many of the hundreds of crustacean varieties peculiar to its waters.

Judging from the graphic evidence of crustacean carnage all around, it's a safe guess as to who's ahead in the ancient battle between hardshell and Homo sapiens.

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