Definition of Macrurous

1. a. Of or pertaining to the Macrura; having a long tail.

Definition of Macrurous

1. Adjective. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Macrura; having a long tail. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Macrurous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Macrurous

1. Of or pertaining to the Macrura; having a long tail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Macrurous

macrourids
macrovascular
macrovirus
macroviruses
macroworld
macroworlds
macrozamia
macrozamin
macrozooplankton
macrozoospore
macrura
macrural
macruran
macrurans
macruroid
macrurous (current term)
macs
mactate
mactated
mactates
mactating
mactation
mactations
mactators
mactra
mactras
macuahuitl
macuahuitls
macula
macula adherens

Literary usage of Macrurous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"ON THE TELSON OF THE macrurous CRUSTACEA.* THK relations of the telson of the lobster and its allies are so variously regarded by zoologists of the present ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1868)
"In the carapace, instead of the rostrum and the posterior angles of the carapace being only just pronounced, as in the macrurous ..."

3. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1868)
"In the carapace, instead of the rostrum and the posterior angles of the carapace being only just pronounced, as in the macrurous вое, they are developed to ..."

4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"Its general appearance is that of a young macrurous crustacean, and as such it has been classified near to Callianassa and ..."

5. General Report on the Work Carried on by the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India, C. L. Griesbach (1900)
"The resemblance of the organism, however, to a macrurous decapod appears to me to be close. Fossil No. (2). That this also belongs to the Crustacea there ..."

6. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... which he regarded as being among the macrurous Decapods, although the absence of the eyes in the preserved specimens, and some other characters, ..."

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