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coconut crabs

coconut crabs is the plural of coconut crab.

Meaning of coconut crab

Noun

coconut crab (plural coconut crabs)

  1. Any of the species Birgus latro of large, terrestrial hermit crabs which live on the shores of the Indian Ocean and the central Pacific Ocean, feeding on fruits, nuts, seeds and coconut flesh.

Questions about coconut crabs

What is coconut crabs the plural of?
Coconut crabs is the plural of coconut crab.

Words near coconut crabs in the dictionary

  1. coconut apple
  2. coconut apples
  3. coconut cotyledon
  4. coconut cotyledons
  5. coconut crab
  6. coconut crabs
  7. coconut cream
  8. coconut creams
  9. Coconut Creek
  10. coconut doggies
  11. coconut doggy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coconut crabs (page history and authors); coconut crab (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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