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AMERICAN LADY CRAB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American lady crab mean?
• AMERICAN LADY CRAB (noun)
The noun AMERICAN LADY CRAB has 1 sense:
1. brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States
Familiarity information: AMERICAN LADY CRAB used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
American lady crab; calico crab; lady crab; Ovalipes ocellatus
Hypernyms ("American lady crab" is a kind of...):
swimming crab (marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming)
Holonyms ("American lady crab" is a member of...):
genus Ovalipes; Ovalipes (a genus of Portunidae)
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