Crab spider

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Related to Aphantochilidae: Crab spider, Thomisidae
(Zool.) one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); - called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab.

See also: Crab

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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