Meanings
nounstomatopod (plural stomatopods)
plural stomatopods
- biologyA member of the Stomatopoda order of marine crustaceans; a mantis shrimp.
Although there has been variation, stomatopods have thrived with little change in their essential design for more than four hundred million years.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 101
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
From order name Stomatopoda, corresponding to stomato- + -pod.
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