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SWIMMING CRAB

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimmingplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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