"horseshoe crab" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: horseshoe crabs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} horseshoe crab (plural horseshoe crabs)
  1. A type of chelicerate arthropod, of the genus Limulus, resembling a crab, to which it is not closely related. Categories (lifeform): Arthropods Translations (arthropod): мечоопашат рак (mečoopašat rak) [masculine] (Bulgarian), (Chinese Mandarin), (hòu) (Chinese Mandarin), 馬蹄蟹 (Chinese Mandarin), 马蹄蟹 (mǎtíxiè) (Chinese Mandarin), 夫妻魚 (Chinese Mandarin), 夫妻鱼 (fūqīyú) (Chinese Mandarin), dolkehale [common-gender] (Danish), hufumkrabo (Esperanto), molukkirapu (Finnish), limule [feminine] (French), Pfeilschwanzkrebs [masculine] (German), זְנַב חֶרֶב (znav ẖérev) [masculine] (Hebrew), カブトガニ (kabutogani) (alt: 甲蟹、兜蟹、鱟、鱟魚) (Japanese), ក្ដាមសេះ (kdaam seh) (Khmer), 투구게 (tuguge) (Korean), belangkas (Malay), táłtłʼááh séigoʼ bitsʼaʼígíí (Navajo), mieczogon [masculine] (Polish), ostrogon [masculine] (Polish), краб-подко́ва (krab-podkóva) [masculine] (Russian), мечехво́ст (mečexvóst) [masculine] (Russian), pòtkovica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), rȁk-pòtkovica [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), dolksvans [common-gender] (Swedish), hästskokrabba [common-gender] (Swedish), แมงดา (mɛɛng-daa) (Thai), sam (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "arthropod",
      "word": "táłtłʼááh séigoʼ bitsʼaʼígíí"
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