MAJIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Majidae mean? 

• MAJIDAE (noun)
  The noun MAJIDAE has 1 sense:

1. spider crabs

  Familiarity information: MAJIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAJIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spider crabs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Majidae; Majidae

Hypernyms ("Majidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Majidae"):

spider crab (any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies)

genus Maia; genus Maja; Maia; Maja (type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution)

genus Macrocheira; Macrocheira (giant crabs of Japan)

Holonyms ("Majidae" is a member of...):

Brachyura; suborder Brachyura (an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface)