How many syllables in crustacean?

There are 3 syllables in the word crustacean.

How to pronounce crustacean:

crustacean (noun):: any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton.; any of a large class (crustacea) of mostly aquatic mandibulate arthropods that have a chitinous or calcareous and chitinous exoskeleton, a pair of often much modified appendages on each segment, and two pairs of antennae and that include the lobsters, shrimp, crabs, wood lice, water fleas, and barnacles

arthropod

barnacle

brachyuran

branchiopod

branchiopod crustacean

chela

cirriped

cirripede

class crustacea

claw

copepod

copepod crustacean

crustacea

decapod

decapod crustacean

green gland

malacostracan crustacean

mussel shrimp

nipper

ostracod

pincer

seed shrimp

stomatopod

stomatopod crustacean

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