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Crust :: Crust (n.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc..

Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) The fighting of hawks with each other.

Cancroid :: Cancroid (a.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer..

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

Grapsoid :: Grapsoid (n.) A grapsoid crab.

Pinnothere :: Pinnothere (n.) A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under Oyster..

Crabbed :: Crabbed (n.) Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author..

Drome :: Drome (n.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher..

Nipper :: Nipper (n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

Mygale :: Mygale (n.) A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii)..

Apron :: Apron (n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.

Thoracostraca :: Thoracostraca (a.) An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species..

Podophthalmia :: Podophthalmia (n. pl.) The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda..

Scrabble :: Scrabble (v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl..

Spakenet :: Spakenet (n.) A net for catching crabs.

Anomoura :: Anomoura (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example..

Triangulares :: Triangulares (n. pl.) The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider..

Crabfaced :: Crabfaced (a.) Having a sour, disagreeable countenance..

Ill-natured :: Ill-natured (a.) Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person..

Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.

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