"crab spider" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: crab spiders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} crab spider (plural crab spiders)
  1. Any spider of the family Thomisidae of spiders that hunt in flowers. Categories (lifeform): Dionychan spiders Synonyms: crabspider Translations (spiders that hunt in flowers): 蟹蛛 (Chinese Mandarin), rapuhämähäkki (Finnish), Krabbenspinne [feminine] (German), aasiak assagiarsungasoq (Greenlandic), krabbakónguló [feminine] (Icelandic), krabbakönguló [feminine] (Icelandic), пау́к-бокохо́д (paúk-bokoxód) [masculine] (Russian), пау́к-краб (paúk-krab) [masculine] (Russian), krabbspindel [common-gender] (Swedish), yengeç örümceği (Turkish)

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