HyperDic: hermit_crab

English > 1 sense of the expression hermit crab:
NOUNanimalhermit crabsmall soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
English > hermit crab: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningsmall soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods.
Member ofPagurus, genus Pagurustype genus of the family Paguridae
Broaderdecapod crustacean, decapodcrustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
Spanishcangrejo ermitaño, ermitaño
Catalanbernat ermità, ermità

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