SWIMMING CRAB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swimming crab mean? 

• SWIMMING CRAB (noun)
  The noun SWIMMING CRAB has 1 sense:

1. marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming

  Familiarity information: SWIMMING CRAB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWIMMING CRAB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming

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)