swimming crab

/swɪmɪŋ kræb/
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Other forms: swimming crabs

Definitions of swimming crab
  1. noun
    marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming
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    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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