decapod

Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkəpɒd/

The English word “decapod” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish.
Any crustacean of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.
A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations.

Borrowed from French décapode. By surface analysis, deca- + -pod.

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