BLUE CRAB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue crab mean? 

• BLUE CRAB (noun)
  The noun BLUE CRAB has 2 senses:

1. Atlantic crab; most common source of fresh crabmeat

2. bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America

  Familiarity information: BLUE CRAB used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE CRAB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Atlantic crab; most common source of fresh crabmeat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("blue crab" is a kind of...):

crab; crabmeat (the edible flesh of any of various crabs)

Holonyms ("blue crab" is a part of...):

blue crab; Callinectes sapidus (bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

blue crab; Callinectes sapidus

Hypernyms ("blue crab" is a kind of...):

swimming crab (marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming)

Meronyms (parts of "blue crab"):

blue crab (Atlantic crab; most common source of fresh crabmeat)

Holonyms ("blue crab" is a member of...):

Callinectes; genus Callinectes (New World blue crabs)