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soldier crab

noun

  1. a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He puts them on and wears them, as a soldier crab puts on and wears an empty shell.

Parasites also are found in messmates; the soldier-crab gives lodging to the sexual Eustoma truncata in its interior.

The Child clapped his hands for pleasure, and longed to see the soldier-crab and make him ashamed of himself.

And the Soldier-crab withdrew his long legs from the pebble, and marched away with a braggadocio air among the sea-weeds.

The case of the hermit or soldier crab was more conclusive, being the result of conscious choice.

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