noun
type genus of the family Pinnotheridae: pea crabs
• Syn: ↑genus Pinnotheres
• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pinnotheridae, ↑family Pinnotheridae
• Member Meronyms: ↑pea crab, ↑oyster crab, ↑Pinnotheres ostreum
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\\ˌpinəˈthi(ˌ)rēz\ nounUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin pinoteres, pinotheres crab living in the mantle cavity of the pen shell, from Greek pinotērēs, from pino- (from pinē pen shell) + -tērēs (from tērein to guard) — more at pain
: a genus (the type of the family Pinnotheridae) of small crabs (as the oyster crab and the pea crab) having usually a thin membranous covering and living as commensals in the mantle cavity of various bivalve mollusks or in some similar cavity in other marine animals
Useful english dictionary. 2012.