noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crab apple
hermit crab
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
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The body meat of the blue crab is white, that of the claws, brownish.
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Soft-shelled crabs are blue crabs taken after the hard shell has been discarded and the new one is still soft.
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He used to fish for blue crab in the river and sell them for a nickel apiece.
■ NOUN
apple
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Whenever possible use four parts of eating apples with two parts of cooking apples or crab apples.
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We moved away from the house maybe thirty feet to where there were some low crab apples , and waited.
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The result: plenty of fresh produce for the kitchen and such delights as crab apple and quince jellies and pickled walnuts.
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I picked one and threw it at a crab apple tree.
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We've planted every kind of native tree you could think of in a hedge, including crab apple and wayfarer tree.
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And then a crab apple flew in and bounced a few feet from Pinky.
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Certainly each of the six crab apples planted in my garden earn their keep in wildlife and ornamental terms.
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I picked the biggest tomato I saw and took out a few more crab apples .
cake
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Guests began with crab cakes , caviar, creme fraiche, smoked salmon and mini beef wellingtons.
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Form into 10 large crab cakes .
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I am having a blast, as I crunch on crab cakes with jicama slaw and lemon chive aioli.
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Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke is putting up a crab cake dinner, and a tour of Baltimore.
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The happy hour food menu includes hot wings, chicken quesadillas, onion rings and crab cakes , among others.
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Pan-fried Louisiana crab cakes with remoulade sauce and Cobb salad with creamy tarragon sauce are perennial lunchtime favorites.
hermit
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Anyone who has tried to remove a hermit crab from its shell will know how tenacious these creatures can be.
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Sometimes you can find a Zebra flatworm sharing the snail shell with the hermit crab .
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A hermit crab sticks sand and weed on its shell, and all Jay's glitz was camouflage.
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Small hermit crabs are readily available where there is ocean water and their value as scavengers makes them worth considering.
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A hermit crab carrying a sea anemone around on its shell.
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What soothes me is lying on my belly at the edge of the water, watching hermit crabs .
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Suitably sized shells are often in short supply and in some areas this limits the hermit crab population.
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But the cowbird and hermit crab can make no such claims.
horseshoe
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One relation alone survives, the horseshoe crab .
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But beneath its shell, the segmented character of the horseshoe crab is clear.
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The horseshoe crab is preserved on a flat-bedded limestone.
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Perhaps this is why the horseshoe crabs developed the habit.
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The living horseshoe crab , Limulus; compare with Fig. 38.
king
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The giant king crabs choose nights when the tide is highest and the moon full.
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The king crabs have a nearly circular carapace, beneath which powerful legs helped the animal to swim and catch prey.
meat
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It might make them crab meat .
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Pick crab meat for any shells.
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In the center of the sphere find the prize, a chunk of sweet crab meat .
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Gently fold in crab meat , avoiding breaking lumps.
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Canned crab meat , precooked and frozen crab meat, and precooked and frozen crab dishes are widely available.
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Some dishes just have it all, and this chicken with crab meat is one of them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alaskan king crabs
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I'll have the crab cakes please.
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She's such a crab .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Form into 10 large crab cakes.
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In the confusion, many crabs lose their foothold, tumble into the water and are swept away.
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It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
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Not surprisingly, peeler crab is the best hookbait.
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Sometimes you can find a Zebra flatworm sharing the snail shell with the hermit crab .
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The fishing was great; you could pick up crabs off the beach.
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The other crab , rather than being left homeless and therefore extremely vulnerable to predators, instantly jumped into the broken shell.
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There was less interest in the crabs and squat lobsters, which I claimed as my niche and shared amicably with others.