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Hermit crab   /hˈərmət kræb/   Listen
Hermit crab

noun
1.
Small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods.





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"Hermit crab" Quotes from Famous Books



... woman, by her own explanation, can dominate my nervous organism. She can project herself into my body and take command of it. She has a parasite soul; yes, she is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell. I am powerless What can I do? I am dealing with forces of which I know nothing. And I can tell no one of my trouble. They would set me down as a madman. Certainly, if it got ...
— The Parasite • Arthur Conan Doyle


Words linked to "Hermit crab" :   decapod crustacean, decapod, genus Pagurus, Pagurus


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