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Etymology
From Latin pīnotērēs, from Ancient Greek πινοτήρης (pinotḗrēs).
Noun
pinnothere (plural pinnotheres)
- (obsolete) A small crab of the genus Pinnotheres, which live symbiotically in the shells of certain molluscs.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish, and as his porter or usher waits upon him, attending the opening of the Nacre […].
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