Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Crab-eating; carcinophagous: applied to sundry animals. Also
cancrophagous .
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- adjective That feeds on
crabs and othercrustaceans
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Examples
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The savanna deer (Odocoileus virginiaunus gymnotis), lives together with the puma (Puma concolor), and several other carnivores such as the crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorous) and the jaguarundi (Herpailurus yaguaroundi). in the open grasslands taking refuge in the forest patches remaining and along the water currents.
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Moreover, several broadly distributed tropical species reach the southern terminus of their range in this region, such as the crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorous).
Arid Chaco 2007
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