| NOUN | animal | swimming crab | marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming |
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| Meaning | marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming. | |
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| Member of | Portunidae, family Portunidae | swimming crabs |
| Narrower | American lady crab, lady crab, calico crab, Ovalipes ocellatus | brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
| English lady crab, Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts | |
| blue crab, Callinectes sapidus | bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America | |
| Broader | crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers |
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