Meanings of hermit crabs in English

It waits for hermit crabs to crawl inside and try it on.

At his feet, thousands of tiny, trembling shells are being resuscitated by hermit crabs.

Fish use them to hide from predators, and hermit crabs use them as temporary shelters.

But you know what hermit crabs do, don't you?

Down in the rock pools, hermit crabs are shifting uneasily in their purloined winkle shells.

When they ran after her, they looked as skittery and high-bottomed as two little hermit crabs.

The only animals that seemed to be hanging on were the common hermit crabs and the organ-pipe worm .

We laughed as we handled the hermit crabs, and Savannah bought me a souvenir key chain from the gift shop.

One day, accompanied by a native lad, I set out to collect hermit crabs, to be used as fish bait.

It is lined with mangrove and palm trees blowing in the wind, hermit crabs hanging on branches with powdery white sand.

We are like a tornado thrashing through the mall, knocking over benches, displays, water massage tables, a cart of hermit crabs, a pretzel stand.

When the strangers put on their shoes the people later compared them to hermit crabs-theyhid their feet inside things which looked like shells.

On the following day I shot three snipe, and in the stomachs of each I found some quite fresh and some partly digested hermit crabs.

Hermit crabs that had evicted whelks, wearing the evicted ones' shells-anobvious misfit; sea anemones as big as roses.

"Cleaning house for the hermit crabs." Honey nodded toward the box.