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Definition of Astacus
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Astacidae; Old World crayfish.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Astacidae, Astacura, Family Astacidae
Member holonyms: Ecrevisse, Old World Crayfish
Definition of Astacus
1. n. A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.
Medical Definition of Astacus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Astacus
| astable astacins astacus (current term) astaghfirullah astand astarboard astare astars astart astarted | astarting astarts astasia astasia-abasia astasias astatane |
Literary usage of Astacus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"... a town be- ture Sol- longing to the Corinthians, which they handed over to
astacus, ... also stormed the town of astacus, and driving out ..."
2. Monograph of the North American Astacidae by Hermann August Hagen (1870)
"The first and chief point ascertained as yet is the strict limitation of the
genera astacus and Cambarus, which completely exclude each other. ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1863)
"The Minute Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in the Lobster (astacus
marinus). By T. S CLOUSTON, MD, Assistant Physician, Royal Edinburgh Asylum. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1888)
"Mr Gulland on the Sense of Touch in astacus. EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1. ...
X. The Sense of Touch in astacus. By G. LOVELL GULLAND, Esq., MA, B.Sc., MB, ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"In this departure from ancestral conditions C. affini.t has gone farther than
astacus in the following respects. In the first stage and in the second stage ..."
6. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The young of astacus, when hatched, are distinguished only in ... In other respects
the young oí astacus, which still remain for some time hanging to the ..."
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