Zool. Pl. -i. [mod.L. use of L. līmulus somewhat askance, f. līmus askew.] A genus of Merostomata (Order Limulidæ); the king-crab or horse-shoe crab.
1837. Buckland, Geol. & Min., I. 393. A second approximation to the character of Trilobites occurs in the Limulus or King crab.
1859. Page, Handbk. Geol. Terms, Limulus, the Molucca-crab, king-crab, or horse-shoe crab.
1873. Dawson, Earth & Man, v. 94. The Limuli, or horse-shoe crabs.
