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BRACHYURAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brachyuran mean?
• BRACHYURAN (noun)
The noun BRACHYURAN has 1 sense:
1. typical crabs
Familiarity information: BRACHYURAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Typical crabs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("brachyuran" is a kind of...):
crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)
Holonyms ("brachyuran" is a member of...):
Brachyura; suborder Brachyura (an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface)
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