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UCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Uca mean? 

UCA (noun)
  The noun UCA has 1 sense:

1. fiddler crabsplay

  Familiarity information: UCA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UCA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fiddler crabs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Uca; Uca

Hypernyms ("Uca" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Uca"):

fiddler crab (burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male)

Holonyms ("Uca" 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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