HERMIT CRAB

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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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