Hermit Crab

Definition: Hermit Crab

Hermit Crab

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Hermit Crab

Books

• Hermit Crab Lives in a Shell (reference)

• Hermy the Hermit Crab Goes Shopping (reference)

• Irving the Hermit Crab (reference)

• Pet Hermit Crab (First Step Nonfiction) (reference)

• Stories for All Seasons: Rooster's Off to See the World, a House for Hermit Crab, the Tiny Seed (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A hermit crab on the mudflats in its natural environment.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arabic 

‏ناسك عياب. (various references)

Czech

rak poustevník. (various references)

French

bernard l'ermite. (various references)

German

einsiedlerkrebs. (various references)

Greek 

παγούρι (canteen, flask). (various references)

Hungarian

remeterák (pagurian). (various references)

Italian

paguro. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

宿借り . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やどかり. (various references)

Manx

mwatlag-maaigagh, dolpaw. (various references)

Pig Latin

ermithay abcray

Russian 

рак-отшельник (pagurian). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kraba (crab). (various references)

Swedish

eremitkräfta. (various references)

Turkish

pagurus. (various references)

Paguridae. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: catbrier, rhematic, tribrach.

-3 letters: arbiter, barmier, batcher, becharm, brachet, brecham, chamber, charier, charmer, charter, chimera, cirrate, erratic, hematic, marcher, matcher, rarebit, rebirth, rechart, rematch, theriac, thermic.

-4 letters: achier, amebic, archer, artier, baiter, barite, barmie, barret, barter, bather, bertha, bracer, breach, breath, cahier, camber, caribe, carter, chimar, chimer, chirre, cither, crambe, crater, haemic, harmer, hermai, hermit, imaret, irater, metric, mihrab, mither, rachet, racier, rather, rebait, retrim, richer, terbia, terbic, thairm, thiram, thrice, timber, timbre, tracer, trimer.

-5 letters: acerb, aimer, airer, airth, aitch, amber, ambit, amice, areic, armer, armet, baith, barer, baric, barre, batch, bathe, beach, berth, bimah, birch, birth, bitch, biter, brace, brach, bract, bream, briar, brier, caber, carer, caret, carte, cater, ceiba, ceria, chair, chare, charm, charr, chart, cheat, chert, chimb, chime, chirm, chirr, citer, crate, cream, crier, crime, earth, embar, erica, ethic, habit, harem, hater, heart, hemic, herma, hirer, ihram, irate, ither, macer, mache, march, match, mater, mbira, merit, miche, micra, mirth, miter, mitre, rabic, racer, ramet, ramie, ratch, rater, rathe, reach, react, rearm, rebar, recta, recti, rehab, remit, retch, retia, ricer, rimer, taber, tache, tamer, tarre, teach, terai, terra, tharm, theca, their, therm, timer, trace, triac, tribe, trice, trier.

+4 letters: turbomachinery.

+5 letters: archaebacterium.

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