stomatopod

English

Etymology

From order name Stomatopoda, corresponding to stomato- +‎ -pod.

Noun

stomatopod (plural stomatopods)

  1. (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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