πινοτήρης
πινοτήρης, pinna-guard, a small crab
πῑνο-τήρης, ου, ὁ, (τηρέω)
- pinna-guard, a small crab that lives in the pinnaʼs shell, said to give warning of approaching danger, Arist. HA 547b28, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.207, Plu. Sollert. 2.980b; cf. πινυφύλαξ.
- 2 metaph., of a diminutive person, ‘baby-crab’, Ar. V. 1510; ὁ π. τοῦδε μάντεως χορός (prob. for χοροῦ), posted to give warning, S. Fr. 113.
πινοτήρης, ου, ὁ,
τηρέω
- the pinna-guard, a small crab that lives in the pinnaʼs shell, like the hermit-crab: metaph. of a little parasitical fellow, Ar.