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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various crabs found along rocky coasts, especially one of the genus Cancer, having a broad, usually oval carapace.

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  • noun Hemigrapsus sexdentatus, a large-eyed marine crab found off the coast of New Zealand
  • noun Cancer irroratus, a crab with large marginal teeth found along the Atlantic coast of North America

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun crab of eastern coast of North America

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