stomatopod
English
Etymology
From order name Stomatopoda, corresponding to stomato- + -pod.
Noun
stomatopod (plural stomatopods)
- (zoology) A member of the Stomatopoda order of marine crustaceans; a mantis shrimp.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 2013 edition, Granta Books, page 101:
- Although there has been variation, stomatopods have thrived with little change in their essential design for more than four hundred million years.
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