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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A family of short-tailed, stalk-eyed, decapod crustaceans, typified by the genus Maia, and corresponding more or less exactly to Milne-Ed-wards's tribe Maiens of his family Oxyrhyncha; the spider-crabs.
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