crab | a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply, he caught a crab and lost the race |
horseshoe crab king crab Limulus polyphemus Xiphosurus polyphemus | large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail, a living fossil related to the wood louse |
Asian horseshoe crab | horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia |
crab-eating opossum | South American opossum |
crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers |
stone crab Menippe mercenaria | large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida) |
hard-shell crab | edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell |
soft-shell crab soft-shelled crab | edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell |
Dungeness crab Cancer magister | small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America |
rock crab Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
Jonah crab Cancer borealis | large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America |
swimming crab | marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming |
English lady crab Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
American lady crab lady crab calico 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 |
fiddler crab | burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male |
pea crab | tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks |
oyster crab Pinnotheres ostreum | tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters |
king crab Alaska crab Alaskan king crab Alaska king crab Paralithodes camtschatica | large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan |
spider crab | any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies |
European spider crab king crab Maja squinado | a large spider crab of Europe |
giant crab Macrocheira kaempferi | very large deep-water Japanese crab |
hermit crab | small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods |
mantis shrimp mantis crab | tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages |
crabeater seal crab-eating seal | silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans |
crab-eating dog crab-eating fox Dusicyon cancrivorus | wild dog of northern South America |
crab louse pubic louse crab Phthirius pubis | a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body |
crab-eating macaque croo monkey Macaca irus | monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines |
crab-eating raccoon Procyon cancrivorus | a South American raccoon |
cantilever | projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only |
cantilever bridge | bridge constructed of two cantilevers that meet in the middle |
crab cocktail | a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce |
crab apple crabapple | small sour apple, suitable for preserving, crabapples make a tangy jelly |
crab crabmeat | the edible flesh of any of various crabs |
blue crab | Atlantic crab, most common source of fresh crabmeat |
crab legs | legs of especially Alaska king crabs |
soft-shell crab soft-shelled crab | freshly molted crab with new shell still tender and flexible |
Japanese crab | crabmeat usually canned, from Japan |
Alaska king crab Alaskan king crab king crab Alaska crab | meat of large cold-water crab, mainly leg meat |
Dungeness crab | flesh of Cancer magister (Dungeness crab) |
stone crab | pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor, found in Florida but now very rare |
crab Louis | lettuce and crabmeat dressed with sauce Louis |
Cancer Cancer the Crab Crab | the fourth sign of the zodiac, the sun is in this sign from about June to July |
Crab Nebula | a remnant of a supernova detected first inAD |
Cancer Crab | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer |
crab crabby person | a quarrelsome grouch |
crab cactus Thanksgiving cactus Zygocactus truncatus Schlumbergera truncatus | South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers, often cultivated as a houseplant, sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera |
crabgrass crab grass finger grass | grasses with creeping stems that root freely, a pest in lawns |
wild apple crab apple crabapple | any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit |
crab apple crabapple cultivated crab apple | any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms |