Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hermit_crab

1 sense of hermit crab

Sense 1
hermit crab -- (small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods)
       => decapod crustacean, decapod -- (crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax)