Limulus

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Limulus \Lim"u*lus\ (l[i^]m"[-u]*l[u^]s), n.; pl. {Limuli}
     (-l[imac]). [L., dim. of limus sidelong, askance.] (Zool.)
     The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a
     few species from the East Indies, and one ({Limulus
     polyphemus}) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called
     also {Molucca crab}, {king crab}, {horseshoe crab}, and


     {horsefoot}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Limulus
       n : type genus of the family Limulidae [syn: {genus Limulus}]