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from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of short-tailed ten-footed crustaceans, typified by the genus Portunus, containing many crabs, some of whose legs are fitted for swimming, known as paddle-crabs, shuttle-crabs, and swimming-crabs. See cuts under
paddle-crab and Platyonychus.
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