crab spider

See also: crabspider

English

a crab spider of the genus Xysticus

Alternative forms

• crabspider

Noun

crab spider (plural crab spiders)

1. Any spider of the family Thomisidae of spiders that hunt in flowers.
   • 2012, Jean Clobert, Michel Baguette, Tim G. Benton, Dispersal Ecology and Evolution:

     In temperate regions, these comprise predominantly the adults of smaller money spiders (Linyphiidae) or the juveniles of larger wolf— and crabspiders (Lycosidae, Thomisidae).

Translations

spiders that hunt in flowers

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟹蛛

• Finnish: rapuhämähäkki
• German: Krabbenspinne f
• Greenlandic: aasiak assagiarsungasoq
• Icelandic: krabbakónguló (is) f, krabbakönguló (is) f
• Russian: пау́к-бокохо́д m (paúk-bokoxód), пау́к-краб m (paúk-krab)
• Swedish: krabbspindel c
• Turkish: yengeç örümceği

Further reading

• crab spider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thomisidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Thomisidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• crisp bread, crispbread, præscrib'd, spider crab