Grapsidae

plural noun

Grap·​si·​dae

-səˌdē

: a cosmopolitan family of crabs including pelagic and littoral and shore crabs as well as a few that have adapted to a strictly terrestrial or to a freshwater mode of life see grapsus

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Grapsus, type genus + -idae

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