hermit crab

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   small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods

   Broaderdecapod crustacean

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Questions about hermit crab

What does hermit crab mean?

hermit crab means "small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods".

Is hermit crab a common word?

hermit crab is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.