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Cheliferous :: Cheliferous (a.) Having cheliform claws, like a crab..

Cancrine :: Cancrine (a.) Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.

Megalops :: Megalops (n.) A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively..

Crab :: Crab (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.

Craber :: Craber (n.) The water rat.

Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..

Scraber :: Scraber (n.) The Manx shearwater.

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.

Curstness :: Curstness (n.) Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.

Fiddler :: Fiddler (n.) A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab..

Mesogastric :: Mesogastric (a.) Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab.

Scrabble :: Scrabble (n.) The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble..

Gnathastegite :: Gnathastegite (n.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs..

Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons..

Abominable :: Abominable (a.) Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable..

Brachyura :: Brachyura (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix..

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.

Macropod :: Macropod (n.) Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab.

Cancriform :: Cancriform (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped..

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