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FAMILY MAJIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Majidae mean?
• FAMILY MAJIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY MAJIDAE has 1 sense:
1. spider crabs
Familiarity information: FAMILY MAJIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spider crabs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Majidae; Majidae
Hypernyms ("family Majidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Majidae"):
spider crab (any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies)
genus Maia; genus Maja; Maia; Maja (type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution)
genus Macrocheira; Macrocheira (giant crabs of Japan)
Holonyms ("family Majidae" is a member of...):
Brachyura; suborder Brachyura (an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface)
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