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crab spiders

crab spiders is the plural of crab spider.

Meaning of crab spider

Noun

crab spider (plural crab spiders)

  1. Any spider of the family Thomisidae of spiders that hunt in flowers.
    • In temperate regions, these comprise predominantly the adults of smaller money spiders (Linyphiidae) or the juveniles of larger wolf— and crabspiders (Lycosidae, Thomisidae).2012, Jean Clobert, Michel Baguette, Tim G. Benton, Dispersal Ecology and Evolution

Questions about crab spiders

What is crab spiders the plural of?
Crab spiders is the plural of crab spider.

Words near crab spiders in the dictionary

  1. crab puffs
  2. crab rangoon
  3. crab rangoons
  4. crab soccer
  5. crab spider
  6. crab spiders
  7. crab stick
  8. crab sticks
  9. crab tree
  10. crab trees
  11. crab yaws

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