Noun: decapod
| Singular | decapod |
| Plural | decapods |
Sample Sentences
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Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service. [1956 October, R. S. McNaught, “Locomotive Nicknames”, in Railway Magazine, pages 698-699:]
Nouns inflected like decapod
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French décapode. By surface analysis, deca- + -pod. See: French Nouns '
décapode'.