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crabspider

crabspider is the alternative form 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

Forms of crabspider

pluralcrabspiders

Questions about crabspider

What is crabspider the alternative form of?
Crabspider is the alternative form of crab spider.

Words near crabspider in the dictionary

  1. crabronid
  2. crabronids
  3. crabs
  4. crabshell
  5. crabshells
  6. crabspider
  7. crabspiders
  8. crabstick
  9. crabsticks
  10. crabstone
  11. crabstones

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