ika

From Proto-Polynesian *ika. Cognates include Hawaiian iʻa and Samoan i'a.


Anomura

New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀνώμᾰλος (anṓmălos, “uneven, irregular, anomalous”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

bor

A taxonomic infraorder within the order Decapoda – certain decapod crustaceans, including hermit crabs.


hermit crab

A decapod crustacean (not a true crab) from the superfamily Paguroidea, which salvages empty seashells or other portable objects to permanently shelter and protect its soft abdomen.


soldier crab

Any of several species of the genus Mictyris, an Indo-West Pacific genus of crabs, especially


stone crab

Myomenippe hardwickii, a species of crab in the family Menippidae.


king crab

(poker slang) A king and a three as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.


寄生

/t͡ɕi⁵¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/kei̯³³ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

/ki²¹⁻⁴¹ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ki¹¹⁻⁵³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ki²¹⁻⁵³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ki⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sŋ̍³³/

/kia²¹⁻⁵³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/kia⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sŋ̍³³/

/kia²¹⁻⁴¹ sẽ⁴⁴/

/kia²¹⁻⁵³ sɛ̃⁴⁴/

/kia¹¹⁻⁵³ sĩ⁴⁴/

/kiã³¹⁻⁵³ sĩ³³/

/kia²¹³⁻⁵⁵ sẽ³³/

/t͡ɕi⁵¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/kei̯³³ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

/ki²¹⁻⁴¹ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ki¹¹⁻⁵³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ki²¹⁻⁵³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ki⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sŋ̍³³/

/kia²¹⁻⁵³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/kia⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sŋ̍³³/

/kia²¹⁻⁴¹ sẽ⁴⁴/

/kia²¹⁻⁵³ sɛ̃⁴⁴/

/kia¹¹⁻⁵³ sĩ⁴⁴/

/kiã³¹⁻⁵³ sĩ³³/

/kia²¹³⁻⁵⁵ sẽ³³/


sand crab

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sand crab.wav

She ran down the ribs of sand, sending the sand-crabs scurrying to their holes.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 372:

A crab of the Hippoidea superfamily of decapod crustaceans, living in sandy habitats.


coconut crab

A terrestrial hermit crab of species Birgus latro, that lives on the shores of the Indian Ocean and the central Pacific Ocean and feeds on fruits, nuts, seeds and coconut flesh.


bernard-l'ermite

fr-noun

bernard-l’ermite m (plural bernard-l’ermite)

bernard-l’ermite (canonical masculine)
bernard-l’ermite (plural)

Borrowed from Occitan bernat l'ermito (literally “Bernard the hermit”), probably named after Bernard of Clairvaux.

bor+

1896, Revue des Deux Mondes, volume 134, “Une correspondance inédite de Prosper Mérimée”, part 3, p. 572

Do you know, Madame, what a hermit crab is? It is a very small crab, three centimeters large at most, whose tail is devoid of scales.

Savez-vous, madame, ce que c’est qu’un Bernard-l’Ermite ? c’est une langouste très petite, de trois centimètres au plus, dont la queue est dépourvue d’écailles.

1932, Franc-Nohain, Guide du bon sens, chapter 7 “Le bon sens et la fraternité”, p. 145

There is an example that haunts me, and to which I return most willingly, because I deem it worthy to spend much thought on: this is the example of the hermit crab.

Il y a un exemple qui me poursuit, sur lequel je reviens le plus volontiers, car je l’estime de nature à prêter grandement à réfléchir : c’est l’exemple du bernard-l’ermite.


pustelnik

pl-noun

pustelnik m pers (female equivalent pustelnica or pustelniczka)

pustelnica (feminine)
pustelniczka (feminine)
pustelnik (nominative singular)
pustelnicy (nominative plural)
pustelniki (derogatory nominative plural)
pustelnika (genitive singular)
pustelników (genitive plural)
pustelnikowi (dative singular)
pustelnikom (dative plural)
pustelnika (accusative singular)
pustelników (accusative plural)
pustelnikiem (instrumental singular)
pustelnikami (instrumental plural)
pustelniku (locative singular)
pustelnikach (locative plural)
pustelniku (singular vocative)
pustelnicy (plural vocative)

(figuratively) hermit, recluse (someone who likes solitude and shies away from people)


paguro

Derived from Latin pagurus, from Ancient Greek πάγουρος (págouros).


aeglid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Aeglidae.


albuneid

(zoology) Any member of the family Albuneidae.


chirostylid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Chirostylidae.


coenobitid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Coenobitidae.


diogenid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Diogenidae.


galatheid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Galatheidae.


hippid

(zoology) Any sand crab in the family Hippidae.


lithodid

(zoology) Any of the crab-like crustaceans in the family Lithodidae, the king crabs.


lomid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lomidae of hairy stone crabs.


munidid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the family Munididae, the squat lobsters.


pagurid

From translingual Paguridae (“family of right-handed hermit crabs”) or Pagurus (“type genus of hermit crabs”) + -id.

uder

(zoology) Any of the hermit crabs of family Paguridae, a right-handed hermit crab.


parapagurid

(zoology) Any of the family Parapaguridae crab-like crustaceans.


porcellanid

(zoology) Any crablike crustacean in the Porcellanidaes.


pylochelid

(zoology) Any of the crab-like crustaceans in the family Pylochelidae.


hermie

If a favorite variety tends to “go hermie", growers often pick out individual male flowers as they are discovered. Some growers let the pollen from these hermaphrodites fertilize females.

2002, Jorge Cervantes, Indoor Marijuana Horticulture, →ISBN:

2007, KS Augustin, Hunted Hermaphrodite Lover, Challis Tower (publ.), →ISBN.
Get rid of the hermie, get rid of the sex-starved engineer, jail the saboteur, write the reports, then sit back and enjoy the peace.


bait bug

A crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches.


寄居蟹

/t͡ɕi⁵¹ t͡ɕy⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/kei̯³³ kɵy̯⁵⁵ haːi̯¹³/

/t͡ɕi⁵¹ t͡ɕy⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/kei̯³³ kɵy̯⁵⁵ haːi̯¹³/


whalefeed

A minute crustacean, Munida gregaria, eaten by baleen whales.


umang

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qumaŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *qumaŋ. Cognate with Tiruray kumang, Marshallese om̧, Palauan chum.

(idiomatic) a person who habitually wears other people's footwear without permission


partan-tuathal

head

partan-tuathal m (genitive singular partain-thuathail, plural partanan-tuathal)

partain-thuathail (genitive singular)
partanan-tuathal (plural)


寄生蟹

/t͡ɕi⁵¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/kei̯³³ sɐŋ⁵⁵ haːi̯¹³/

/t͡ɕi⁵¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/kei̯³³ sɐŋ⁵⁵ haːi̯¹³/


aegloid

Any crustacean of the superfamily Aegloidea


chirostyloid

Any crustacean of the superfamily Chirostyloidea


galatheoid

Any decapod crustacean of the superfamily Galatheoidea


munidopsid

Any squat lobster of the family Munidopsidae but especially of the genus Munidopsis


squat lobster

Any of many decapod crustacea of the superfamilies Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea, both in suborder Anomura.


paguroid

Any hermit crab of the superfamily Paguroidea


brown crab

Ellipsis of brown king crab. (Lithodes aequispinus)


Hoff crab

From (the) Hoff, nickname of actor David Hasselhoff, with reference to the resemblance of his hairy chest to the crab's dense covering of ventral setae + crab.

A species of lobster, Kiwa tyleri, that inhabits deep-sea hydrothermal vents near Antarctica.


寄生仔

/kiã²¹⁻⁴¹ sẽ⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁴¹/

/kia²¹⁻⁵³ sẽ⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/

/kiã²¹⁻⁴¹ sẽ⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁴¹/

/kia²¹⁻⁵³ sẽ⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/


寄仔生

/kiɛt̚³²⁻⁵⁴ a⁵³⁻²⁴ sĩ⁴⁴/

/kiɛt̚³²⁻⁵⁴ a⁵³⁻²⁴ sĩ⁴⁴/


漿寄生

/t͡siũ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiã²¹⁻⁵³ sẽ⁴⁴/

/t͡siũ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiã²¹⁻⁵³ sẽ⁴⁴/


螺仔鬼

/le²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kui⁵³/

/le²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kui⁵³/


哈螺

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ le²³/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ le²³/


om̧

From Proto-Micronesian *wumʷa, from Proto-Oceanic *qumʷaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qumaŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *qumaŋ. Cognate with Cebuano umang, Tiruray kumang, Palauan chum.


barulep

[pˠɑrˠuːlʲɛpʲ]


southern king crab

en-noun

southern king crab (plural southern king crabs)

A large species of crab Lithodes santolla and its edible flesh, native to southern South America.


Chilean king crab

Chilean king crab (plural Chilean king crabs)


butterfly crab

The nickname "butterfly crab" refers to the crab's butterfly-shaped carapace.

Hart, Josephine F. L. (1965 May 30) “Life History and Larval Development of Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt (Decapoda, Anomura) from British Columbia”, in Crustaceana, volume 8, number 3, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 255–276: “The turtle or butterfly crab, Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt, 1849, is a crustacean of [...] the family Lithodidae.”

Fretwell, Kelly, Starzomski, Brian (2015) “Butterfly crab • Cryptolithodes typicus”, in Biodiversity of the Central Coast, archived from the original on 2018-04-06: “The butterfly crab's range extends from northern Alaska to southern California.”

A species of shallow-water king crab (Cryptolithodes typicus) native to coastal regions of the northeastern Pacific Ocean


bernat ermità

ca-noun

bernat ermità m (plural bernats ermitans)


ermità

ca-adj

ermità (feminine ermitana, masculine plural ermitans, feminine plural ermitanes)

ermitana (feminine)
ermitans (masculine plural)
ermitanes (feminine plural)

(relational) hermit, hermitage; eremitic


短足擬石蟹

ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄗㄨˊ ㄋㄧˇ ㄕˊ ㄒㄧㄝˋ

дуаньцзу нишисе

/tu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡su³⁵ ni²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/tyːn³⁵ t͡sʊk̚⁵ jiː¹³ sɛːk̚² haːi̯¹³/

/tyːn³⁵ t͡sʊk̚⁵ jiː¹³ sɛːk̚² haːi̯¹³/


brown box crab

Lopholithodes foraminatus, a king crab that lives from Prince William Sound, Alaska to San Diego, California.


blue crab

Ellipsis of blue king crab. (Paralithodes platypus)


golden king crab

en-noun

golden king crab (plural golden king crabs)

A crab of the Lithodes aequispinus species


blue king crab

Any crab of the species Paralithodes platypus


red king crab

A crab of the Paralithodes camtschaticus species


brown king crab

brown king crab (plural brown king crabs)

golden king crab
golden king crab#English

Synonym of golden king crab (Lithodes aequispinus)


golden crab

Ellipsis of golden king crab. (Lithodes aequispinus)


granchio del cocco

it-noun

granchio del cocco m (plural granchi del cocco)


mole crab

Synonym of sand crab (“crab of the Hippoidea superfamily”)


tuna crab

Grimothea planipes, a squat lobster of the Pacific coast of the Americas.


qayuuy

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qayuyu (“coconut crab”)


Munida

Possibly a variant of Latin mūnītus (“fortified, protected”), though unlikely.

A taxonomic genus within the family Munididae – very many squat lobsters.


基瓦

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ wä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ wä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


blepharipodid

(zoology) Any sand crab in the family Blepharipodidae