BRACHYURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brachyura mean? 

• BRACHYURA (noun)
  The noun BRACHYURA has 1 sense:

1. an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface

  Familiarity information: BRACHYURA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRACHYURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Brachyura; suborder Brachyura

Hypernyms ("Brachyura" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Brachyura"):

brachyuran (typical crabs)

crab (decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers)

genus Menippe; Menippe (stone crabs)

Cancridae; family Cancridae (many of the best known edible crabs)

family Portunidae; Portunidae (swimming crabs)

genus Uca; Uca (fiddler crabs)

family Pinnotheridae; Pinnotheridae (tiny soft-bodied crabs)

family Lithodidae; Lithodidae (deep-sea crabs of cold waters)

family Majidae; Majidae (spider crabs)

Holonyms ("Brachyura" is a member of...):

Reptantia; suborder Reptantia (lobsters; crabs)

Derivation:

brachyurous (of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura)