spider crab

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noun

any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.

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Origin of spider crab

First recorded in 1700–10

Words nearby spider crab

spicule, spiculum, spicy, spide, spider, spider crab, spider fly, spider hole, spiderhunter, spider-hunting wasp, spider lily

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How to use spider crab in a sentence

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-Science
This 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 Arnold
When 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|Various
This is the most common spider-crab of the Pacific (California) coast.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide|Augusta Foote Arnold

These 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

spider crab

noun

any of various crabs of the genera Macropodia, Libinia, etc, having a small triangular body and very long legs

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