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swimming crab

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Noun1.swimming crabswimming crab - marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming
crab - decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
family Portunidae, Portunidae - swimming crabs
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
Callinectes sapidus, blue crab - bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America


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Whether whales feed on them I do not know; but terns, cormorants, and immense herds of great unwieldy seals derive, on some parts of the coast, their chief sustenance from these swimming crabs.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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