crablike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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They found 85 types of parasites including arthropods, little crablike or shelled creatures, and “unbelievably gorgeous tapeworms,” Wood said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
One of the most severe threats to honey bees over the past several decades has been Varroa destructor, a crablike parasitic mite that feeds on honey bees' fat body tissue.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022
There’s a crablike pincer in Craig Schaffer’s “Animal/Vegetable,” made of painted steel, while Marja Ponkka-Carpenter’s “Raspberry” arranges red fabric cones in a circular format.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019
Trilobites—three-sectioned, crablike critters that dominated the early Paleozoic—are so abundant that they have become the gateway fossil for most collectors.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 23, 2017
I backed away, crablike, further into darkness—like a crab retreating in pain when you strike two stones at the mouth of his underwater den.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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