BOX CRAB


Meaning of BOX CRAB in English

noun

Etymology: so. called from the way the legs fold against the carapace, resembling a box

1. : a crab of the tropical oxystomatous family Calappidae

2. : a large rough anomuran crab ( Lopholithodes foraminatus ) of the Pacific coast of No. America — called also shamefaced crab

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