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SWIMMING CRAB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("swimming crab" is a kind of...):
crab (decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "swimming crab"):
English lady crab; Portunus puber (crab of the English coasts)
American lady crab; calico crab; lady crab; Ovalipes ocellatus (brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States)
blue crab; Callinectes sapidus (bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America)
Holonyms ("swimming crab" is a member of...):
family Portunidae; Portunidae (swimming crabs)
