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swimming crab

DEFINITIONS OF: swimming crab

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n marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming

Types:
English lady crab, Portunus puber
crab of the English coasts
American lady crab, Ovalipes ocellatus, calico crab, lady crab
brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States
Callinectes sapidus, blue crab
bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America
Type of:
crab
decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
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