Definition of Nephrops

1. Noun. A genus of Nephropsidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Nephrops
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Nephropsidae, Nephropsidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephrops

Nepaulese
Nepenthaceae
Nepeta cataria
Nepeta hederaceae
Nephelium
Nephelium lappaceum
Nephelium litchi
Nephelium longana
Nephelium mutabile
Nephilim
Nephite
Nephrolepis
Nephrolepis exaltata
Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis
Nephrolepis pectinata
Nephrops
Nephrops norvegicus
Nephropsidae
Nephthys
Nephthytis afzelii
Nepidae
Neptune
Neptune's girdle
Neptunian
Neptunians
Neptunism
Neptunist
Neptunists
Nera
Nerdic

Literary usage of Nephrops

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

1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"... similar in form in the two sexes, appear at this same time. At a still later stage sexual differentiation is attained. The metamorphosis >if nephrops ..."

2. Travels in New Zealand: With Contributions to the Geography, Geology, Botany by Ernst Dieffenbach (1843)
"The eyes are large, as in nephrops: the sides of the second thoracic segment, in the middle in front, with a spine, as in Pota- mobius, and a shorter one ..."

3. The Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray (1831)
"The eyes large, as in nephrops : the sides of the second thoracic segment ... as in nephrops : the middle plate of the tail is of one piece, as in nephrops, ..."

4. A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1893)
"The type-species, nephrops norwegicus (Linn.), is distributed generally through the seas of Europe, belonging not only to Norway, but also to Great Britain ..."

5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"Feet, first pair long and prismatic; succeeding pairs with a compressed nephrops ... has more relation to nephrops than any olhe: genus of ..."

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