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Definition of Brachyurous
1. Adjective. Of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura.
Medical Definition of Brachyurous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Brachyurous
Literary usage of Brachyurous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"The brachyurous decapods are evidently the crustacea most eminently adapted for
walking. ... Many brachyurous decapods walk much less than others, ..."
2. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"Some of the brachyurous Zowa forms exhibit considerable divergences from the
described type, more especially in the armature of the shield. ..."
3. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate by Richard Owen, William White Cooper (1843)
"We have seen that in the brachyurous Crustacea a further concentration takes
place by the longitudinal blending together of the whole series of the ..."
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