OYSTER CRAB

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Meaning:

Tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters

Synonyms:

oyster crab; Pinnotheres ostreum

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Nouns denoting animals

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

pea crab (tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks)

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

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

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