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noun

an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.

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Words nearby snow crab

snow cave, snow-clad, snowclone, snow cone, snow cover, snow crab, snowcreep, snow crust, snow crystal, snow day, snow devil

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How to use snow crab in a sentence

Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.
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But mostly they just walked, their faces somber, their hands shaking as the snow began to fall.
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There was snow on the ground when I made my last trip to see Sheffield.
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“I think there's too much snow in Finland at the present time,” he announces.
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Because the American film industry is based in the sun bleached sands of Southern California, movies rarely feature snow.
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To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.
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At the foot of the pass, the valley widened a little, though still with steep, snow-capped cliffs crowding it on either side.
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I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
She may be as chaste as unsunned snow, she is certainly as cold: but for warm, inspiring virtue!
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British Dictionary definitions for snow crab

snow crab

noun

Canadian an edible crab with long thin legs found off the coasts of Eastern Canada

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