pea crab

/pi kræb/
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Definitions of pea crab
  1. noun
    tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks
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    types:
    Pinnotheres ostreum, oyster crab
    tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters
    type of:
    crab
    decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
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