…a crustacean, found chiefly on seashores, with a broad carapace, stalked eyes, and five pairs of legs, the first pair of which are modified as pincers…
…a large edible swimming crab of the Atlantic coast of North America…
…a crab that lives in burrows inland and migrates in large numbers to the sea to breed…
…a minute soft-bodied crab that lives inside the shell of a bivalve mollusc, where it filters food particles from the water drawn into the shell by its host…
…a crab that lives on or burrows in sand, especially one related to fiddler and ghost crabs…
…a hold in which a wrestler sits astride a prone opponent and pulls upwards on the opponent’s legs…
…an irregular patch of luminous gas in the constellation Taurus, believed to be the remnant of a supernova explosion seen by Chinese astronomers in 1054. At its centre is the first pulsar to be observed visually, and the nebula is a strong source of high-energy radiation…
…a spider with long front legs, moving with a crablike sideways motion and typically lying in wait in vegetation and flowers for passing prey…
…a stick of mixed compressed fish pieces, rectangular in section, and including and flavoured with crab…
…a large pinkish-brown European crab with black-tipped pincers, typically found in inshore waters and caught for food…
…a pale yellowish crab that lives in a burrow in the sand above the high-water mark and goes down to the sea at night to feed…
…a name for the common shore crab in its capacity as an invasive species in the US…
…a crab with a soft asymmetrical abdomen, which lives in a cast-off mollusc shell for protection. In several kinds the shell becomes covered with sponges, sea anemones, or bryozoans…
…an olive-green Asian crab with hairy pincers that has been introduced into Europe, where it lives in fresh water and estuaries and can become a pest…
…a minute, soft-bodied crab that lives inside the shell of a bivalve mollusk, where it filters food particles from the water drawn into the shell by its host…
…a large terrestrial crablike crustacean which climbs coconut palms to feed on the nuts, found on islands in the Indo-Pacific area…
…a crab with long thin legs and a compact pear-shaped body, which is camouflaged in some kinds by attached sponges and seaweed…
…a large, heavy, edible crab of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean area…
…a small amphibious crab, the males of which have one greatly enlarged claw which they wave in territorial display and courtship…
…make a faulty stroke in which the oar is jammed under water or misses the water altogether…
…a large crab found off the west coast of North America, where it is popular as food…
…a large marine arthropod with a domed horseshoe-shaped shell, a long tail spine, and ten legs, little changed since the Devonian…
…a marine crablike crustacean with long antennae, related to the hermit crabs…
…a crab, especially a blue crab, that has recently moulted and has a new shell that is still soft and edible…
…a louse that infests human body hair, especially in the genital region, causing extreme irritation…
…a name for the common shore crab in its capacity as an invasive species in the US…
…an olive-green Asian crab with hairy pincers that has been introduced into Europe, where it lives in fresh water and estuaries and can become a pest…
…the small tree that bears the crab apple…
…a crab that inhabits the seashore and shallow waters…
…a coastal crab which has paddle-like rear legs for swimming…
