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hermit crab

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hermit crab
n.
Any of various crabs belonging to a group within the order Decapoda that protect their soft unarmored abdomens by occupying and carrying about the empty shells of snails or other univalve mollusks.
hermit crab
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small soft-bodied decapod crustacean of the genus Pagurus and related genera, living in and carrying about the empty shells of whelks or similar molluscs
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Noun1.hermit crabhermit crab - small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
decapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
genus Pagurus, Pagurus - type genus of the family Paguridae
Translations
hermit crab
n → Einsiedlerkrebs m
hermit crab n → paguro, bernardo l'eremita
hermit crab n → paguro, bernardo l'eremita


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