Giraffes have long necks, which they use to browse the leaves of trees. They also have slightly elongated forelegs, about 10% longer than their hind legs. Like nearly all mammals, a giraffe has seven neck vertebrae, which are extremely. elongated.
A crustacean is an organism that belongs to the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, and in the class Crustacea. Examples of the organisms belonging to this class are lobsters, woodlice, krill, shrimp, barnacles, crayfish, and crabs.
Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton. Classified under: Nouns denoting animals. Hypernyms (crustacean is a kind of...): arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin). Meronyms (parts of crustacean): green gland (one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae).