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limulus

limulus noun: horseshoe crab, king crab.

Noun

limulus (uncountable)

  1. Horseshoe crab, king crab.

limulus meaning in Tamil

limulus in Tamil

அரசநண்டு, லிமுலஸ்

Origin of limulus

Borrowed from Latin līmulus, from līmus + -ulus. By surface analysis, Latin lim(us) + -ulus.

Questions about limulus

What does limulus mean?
Limulus means horseshoe crab, king crab.
What is limulus in Tamil?
Limulus in Tamil is அரசநண்டு, லிமுலஸ். See Limulus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is limulus?
Limulus is a noun.

Words near limulus in the dictionary

  1. limulids
  2. limuline
  3. limulines
  4. limuloid
  5. limuloids
  6. limulus
  7. Limuria
  8. limurite
  9. limus
  10. limy
  11. lin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: limulus (page history and authors); limulus (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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