a. and sb. Zool. [ad. mod.L. Tetradecapoda, f. TETRA- + DECA- ten: cf. DECAPODA.] a. adj. Having fourteen feet; belonging to the Tetradecapoda, an order of Crustaceans. b. sb. A crustacean of this order. So (in same senses) Tetradecapodan a. and sb.; Tetradecapodous a.
1852. Dana, Crust., II. 1528. The two types, the Decapodan and Tetradecapodan. Ibid., 1576. Among the Tetradecapods there is the Chilian genus Amphoroidea.
1854. Chamb. Jrnl., I. 26/1. Attached to each of them was a small, pale, tetradecapodous animal.
1862. Dana, Man. Geol., Crust., 153. Fourteen-footed species or Tetradecapods.
