54 examples of crustacean in sentences

" The curious crustacean known as the "fiddler crab" is unusually numerous in the marshes of Long Island, this summer.

On being taken to the police-station and shown the "All Clear" notice the cautious crustacean consented to go straight home.

Nat soon learned the fact, and enveloped the crustacean as he had done the mollusk.

THE LARVA OF A LEAF-BODIED CRUSTACEAN CALLED PHYLLOSOMA.

[major divisions of animals] mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe.

On mornings when the sea is quieter there are few who can resist the desire to plunge into the blue waters, for at seven o'clock the shore is so entirely deserted that one seems to be bathing from some primeval shore where no other forms of life may be expected than some giant crustaceans.

As if in compensation for the merely nominal allowance of costume tolerated by this crustacean professor, his chest and arms were entirely covered with a wild arabesque of tattoo-work, in blue and red.

The reason probably is that they have not been feeding on the fresh-water shrimps or crustaceans, owing to the abundance of olive duns and other flies that have been on the water.

A hard winter doubtless commits sad havoc among the caddis and larvae at the bottom of the river; the trout, not being able to get much fly, are then compelled to fall back on the crustaceans.

Interesting as were these habits of the cenobite crustacean, his keeping a policeman or two on guard on his roof, and moving them to his successive domiciles, was more so.

Nelson got some crustaceans and other beasts with a vertical tow net, and got a water sample and temperatures at 400 metres.

Along the slopes, the crustaceans came scrambling along on their double row of claws attracted by this novelty that was changing the mortal calm of the under-sea where all follow and devour, only to be devoured in turn.

At first miserable and scanty tribes had wandered along its coasts seeking their food from the crustaceans drawn from the wavesa life similar to that of the rudimentary people that Ferragut had seen in the islands of the Pacific.

Even the smallest crustaceans had the advantage of him.

They needed to be light, and in order to be so had dispensed with the rigid and hard shell of the crustacean that prevents motion, preferring the coat of mail covered with scales, which expands and contracts, yields to the blow but is not injured.

The poor crustacean, divining its danger, was swimming towards the rocks hoping to take refuge in the nearest crevice.

If digestion were a thing to be trifled with, I might sup upon lobster, and the matter of life of the crustacean would undergo the same wonderful metamorphosis into humanity.

And were I to return to my own place by sea, and undergo shipwreck, the crustacean might, and probably would, return the compliment, and demonstrate our common nature by turning my protoplasm into living lobster.

This branch of the articulates counts six classes: insects, myriapodes, arachnides, crustaceans, cirrhopodes, and annelides.

The numerous plates of those whalebones with which the animal's palate is furnished serve to strain like fishermen's nets; nothing can get out of them again, and the mass of crustaceans is ingulfed in the whale's vast stomach, as the soup of your dinner in yours.

The barnacles are crustaceans related most nearly to the crabs and shrimps.

For weeks we and all the neighbors held high carnival boiling and eating the luscious crustaceans.

Of the crustacean borers, Limnoria, or the "wood louse," is the only one of great importance, although Sphoeroma is reported destructive in places.

ACORN-SHELLS, a crustacean attached to rocks on the sea-shore, described by Huxley as "fixed by its head," and "kicking its food into its mouth with its legs.

I have seen him stand before his class holding in his hand the claw of a crustacean.

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