spider crab
any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.
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Spider crabsThe common spider crab on the East Coast ranges from Nova Scotia through Florida and the Gulf Coast.
14 wild edibles you can pull right out of the ocean | By Bob McNally/Field & Stream | October 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThis species of spider-crab is found from Greenland to New Jersey, in shallow as well as in deep water.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldWhen a spider-crab grows too large for his clothes, he rips them at the back, and out he slides, a helpless soft mass.
Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 | VariousThis is the most common spider-crab of the Pacific (California) coast.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldThese catch in the seaweed, and soon the spider crab is decorated with bits of weed.
On the Seashore | R. Cadwallader Smith
A parasite, Sacculina neglecta, sometimes drives root-like growths into the spider crab, causing slow castration.
Taboo and Genetics | Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
British Dictionary definitions for spider crab
any of various crabs of the genera Macropodia, Libinia, etc, having a small triangular body and very long legs
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