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n. (hermit crab English)
Usage examples of "hermit crabs".
Pea crabs vied for space in the line with hermit crabs, while pelagic crabs shared the water with benthic crabs that were utterly devoid of color and nearly so of eyesight.
A few hermit crabs occupied the small pools, drawing back tightly into their borrowed shells at his approach.
It struck him then, that the aliens resembled hermit crabs, wearing borrowed shells and moving into larger ones as they grew.
And then into the arena drifted the corpses from up-stream - whitebellied fish, shrimps, worms, hermit crabs, spotted and green morays, langoustes of all sizes.
And then into the arena drifted the corpses from up-stream - whitebellied fish, shrimps, worms, hermit crabs, spotted and green morays,langoustes of all sizes.
And then into the arena drifted the corpses from up-stream whitebellied fish, shrimps, worms, hermit crabs, spotted and green morays, langoustes of all sizes.
From the top of Turk's Head they saw distant Wigby like a colony of hermit crabs.
And the beach was full of horseshoe crabs and hermit crabs and jellyfish and strings of seaweed that would wash up in huge tangles.
He was standing a few feet from the car with his hands hanging by his sides, the little pink fingers bunched like the legs of hermit crabs.
This seems the more strange, since the hermit crabs pass and repass the island, and I have met them by the Residency well, which is about central, journeying either way.
They followed one of the tunnels to its emergence on an island, where Benita and Chad were introduced to two Thwakians who emerged only partially from the tunnel, rather in the manner of hermit crabs emerging partially from their borrowed shells.
Ruthie and Winfield came out of their bed like hermit crabs from shells.