Definition of Crabs. Meaning of Crabs. Synonyms of Crabs

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Definition of Crabs

Crab
Crab Crab (kr[a^]b), v. t. 1. To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.] Sickness sours or crabs our nature. --Glanvill. 2. To beat with a crabstick. [Obs.] --J. Fletcher.
Crab
Crab Crab, v. i. (Naut.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Meaning of Crabs from wikipedia

- spider crab, with a leg span up to 4 m (13 ft). Several other groups of crustaceans with similar appearances – such as king crabs and porcelain crabs – are...
- crabs are more closely related to squat lobsters and porcelain crabs than they are to true crabs (Brachyura). However, the relationship of king crabs...
- not true crabs or crustaceans: they are chelicerates, most closely related to arachnids such as spiders, ticks, and scorpions. Horseshoe crabs live primarily...
- other terrestrial hermit crabs of the genus Coenobita. It shows a number of adaptations to life on land. Juvenile coconut crabs use empty gastropod s****...
- Berolzheimer. A nuclear accident transforms a pack of horseshoe crabs into murderous monsters. The crabs descend on a sleepy coastal town on Prom night, and only...
- "strikingly resemble crabs," and probably had a similar ecology. The example of king crabs (family Lithodidae) evolving from hermit crabs has been particularly...
- The fiddler crab or calling crab may be any of more than one hundred species of semiterrestrial marine crabs in the family Ocypodidae, well known for their...
- Look up crab mentality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crab mentality, also known as crab theory, crabs in a bucket mentality, or the crab-bucket effect...
- the red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus). King crabs are not true crabs, and are generally thought to be derived from hermit crab ancestors within...
- Soft-s**** crab is a culinary term for crabs that have recently molted their old exoskeleton and are still soft. Soft-s**** are removed from the water...