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Oyster Crab

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Noun

1. oyster crab, pinnotheres ostreum

tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Oyster Crab

see synonyms of oyster crab
noun
any of several small soft-bodied crabs of the genus Pinnotheres, esp P. ostreum, that live as commensals in the mantles of oysters

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Oyster Crab

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any of various small, thin-shelled crabs (family Pinnotheridae) that live as commensals in the gill cavities of oysters, clams, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Oyster Crab

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n.
A small crab (Zaops ostreum syn. Pinnotheres ostreum) of the western Atlantic Ocean that lives inside the shell of a bivalve mollusk, especially an oyster.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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