noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hermit crab carrying a sea anemone around on its shell.
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A hermit crab sticks sand and weed on its shell, and all Jay's glitz was camouflage.
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Anyone who has tried to remove a hermit crab from its shell will know how tenacious these creatures can be.
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But the cowbird and hermit crab can make no such claims.
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Sometimes you can find a Zebra flatworm sharing the snail shell with the hermit crab .
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Suitably sized shells are often in short supply and in some areas this limits the hermit crab population.