Phrase guide

crab spider

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any spider of the family Thomisidae of spiders that hunt in flowers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

10 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 蟹蛛 — spiders that hunt in flowers
  • Finnish: rapuhämähäkki — spiders that hunt in flowers
  • German: Krabbenspinne — spiders that hunt in flowers
  • Greenlandic: aasiak assagiarsungasoq — spiders that hunt in flowers
  • Icelandic: krabbakónguló — spiders that hunt in flowers
  • Icelandic: krabbakönguló — spiders that hunt in flowers
  • Russian: пау́к-бокохо́д (paúk-bokoxód) — spiders that hunt in flowers
  • Russian: пау́к-краб (paúk-krab) — spiders that hunt in flowers
  • Swedish: krabbspindel — spiders that hunt in flowers
  • Turkish: yengeç örümceği — spiders that hunt in flowers