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HERMIT CRAB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hermit crab" is a kind of...):
decapod; decapod crustacean (crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax)
Holonyms ("hermit crab" is a member of...):
genus Pagurus; Pagurus (type genus of the family Paguridae)
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