PEA CRAB

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Meaning:

Tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pea crab" is a kind of...):

crab (decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pea crab"):

oyster crab; Pinnotheres ostreum (tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters)

Holonyms ("pea crab" is a member of...):

genus Pinnotheres; Pinnotheres (type genus of the family Pinnotheridae: pea crabs)

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