Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura; a crab.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the brachyurous crustaceans. Also
brachyouran .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the Brachyura.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
crabs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun typical crabs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Brachyūra, infraorder name : Greek brakhu-, brachy- + Greek ourā, tail; see –urous.]
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From the infraorder Brachyura (the true crabs).
Examples
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Eberhart, a senior at Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma, designed and developed a portable light trap for sampling brachyuran crab larvae.
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