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

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