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OYSTER CRAB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oyster crab mean?
• OYSTER CRAB (noun)
The noun OYSTER CRAB has 1 sense:
1. tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters
Familiarity information: OYSTER CRAB used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
oyster crab; Pinnotheres ostreum
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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