hermit crabs
- plural of hermit crab.
Example Sentences
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And John in a great big, long, reddish-gray beard always comes crunching down at full speed across the hermit-crabs to meet us.
From Little Eve Edgarton by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
So-called soldier-or hermit-crabs, are crabs which have adopted the habit of appropriating the empty shells of mollusks.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by Romanes, George John
Among the Anomura, the best known are the hermit-crabs, which live in the empty shells of Gasteropod Mollusca, which they carry about with them as portable dwellings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
Something seems to have disagreed with him—perhaps too many hermit-crabs!
From The Dragon's Secret by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
“Did you find it hard to tear yourself away from the hermit-crabs, Ragsie?” she laughed.
From The Dragon's Secret by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
