GENUS MENIPPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Menippe mean? 

• GENUS MENIPPE (noun)
  The noun GENUS MENIPPE has 1 sense:

1. stone crabs

  Familiarity information: GENUS MENIPPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MENIPPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stone crabs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Menippe; Menippe

Hypernyms ("genus Menippe" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Menippe"):

Menippe mercenaria; stone crab (large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida))

Holonyms ("genus Menippe" is a member of...):

Brachyura; suborder Brachyura (an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface)