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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of small crustaceans, typical of the family Pinnotheriidæ, so called because they inhabit the shells of pinnas and other bivalve mollusks, as oysters; the pea-crabs.

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  • noun Plural form of pinnothere.

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  • noun type genus of the family Pinnotheridae: pea crabs

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