English
Noun
hermit crab (plural hermit crabs)
- A decapod crustacean (not a true crab) from the superfamily Paguroidea, which salvages empty seashells or other portable objects to permanently shelter and protect its soft abdomen.
2025 August 19, Melissa Scott Sinclair, “Consider the Hermit Crab”, in Slate[1]:In the U.S., Akers would like to see all hermit crabs legally reclassified as exotic pets, like an alligator or an ocelot, so their sale and ownership could be regulated. To her, every crab’s life is precious.
Derived terms
Translations
crustacean
- Bikol Central: umang
- Bislama: nakato
- Bulgarian: рак пустинник m (rak pustinnik)
- Catalan: bernat ermità m
- Cebuano: umang
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 寄居蟹 (zh) (jìjūxiè), 寄生蟹 (zh) (jìshēngxiè)
- Czech: krab poustevníček m, poustevníček severský m
- Danish: eremitkrebs c
- Dutch: heremietkreeft (nl) m
- Finnish: erakkorapu
- French: bernard-l’ermite (fr) m
- Galician: cangrexo ermitán (gl) m
- German: Einsiedlerkrebs (de) m
- Greek: πάγουρος (el) m (págouros)
- Hungarian: remeterák (hu)
- Indonesian: kelomang
- Ingrian: erikkokrapu
- Irish: faocha ghliomaigh f, portán sligreach m
- Italian: paguro (it) m, bernardo l’eremita m
- Japanese: 宿借り, ヤドカリ (ja) (yadokari)
- Korean: 소라게 (sorage)
- Latin: pīnotērēs m
- Malay: umang-umang
- Maori: kāunga, waerau
- Mokilese: umwpwa
- Norwegian: eremittkreps m
- Occitan: bernat-l'ermita m, buòu arput m, piada f
- Polish: rak pustelnik m, krab pustelnik m, pustelnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: bernardo-eremita m
- Russian: рак-отше́льник (ru) m (rak-otšélʹnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: partan-tuathal m
- Serbo-Croatian: rak samac m
- Spanish: cangrejo ermitaño m
- Swedish: eremitkräfta c
- Thai: ปูเสฉวน (th) (bpuu-sěe-chǔuan)
- Turkish: keşiş yengeci
- Ukrainian: рак-самітник m (rak-samitnyk)
- Vietnamese: ốc mượn hồn (vi), cua kí cư, cua ẩn sĩ
- Welsh: cranc meddal m, cranc meudwyol m
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