Decapod \Dec"a*pod\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]capode.] (Zo["o]l.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.
decapod n 1: crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax [syn: {decapod crustacean}] 2: cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones