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Definition of Pagurian
1. n. Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.
Definition of Pagurian
1. a hermit crab [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pagurian
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pagurian
Literary usage of Pagurian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... fat under the tail which, according to Darwin, of Lea yields when molted as
much as a quart of limpid (7) In the Hermit Crabs (pagurian, Plate X. fig. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1847)
"An endless variety of fragile and richly coloured shells not only lie empty- on
the sandy beaches, but are tenanted by pagurian crabs, which, in clusters, ..."
3. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman, James Murdock (1875)
"In AD 391, issued an edict to pagurian, prohibiting sacrifices, and even the
entering into the temples. In the same year, a rescript was addressed to the ..."
4. Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia (1847)
"An endless variety of fragile and richly colored shells not only lie empty on
the sandy beaches, but are tenanted by pagurian crabs -which, in clusters, ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1848)
"An endless variety of fragile and richly-coloured shells not only lie empty on
the sandy beaches, but are tenanted by pagurian crabs, which, in clusters, ..."
6. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Society of London (1901)
"7 ; BORRADAILE, PZS fig. 10 ; DE MAN, Mem. Soe. zool. France xiii. 1900, n. sp.
pagurian-, key to W. African genera, p. ; RATHBUN, PUS Mus. xxii. ..."
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