pea crab

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   tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks

   Broadercrab

   Narroweroyster crab

   Part ofPinnotheres

Questions about pea crab

What does pea crab mean?

pea crab means "tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks".

Is pea crab a common word?

pea crab is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.