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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of terrestrial brachyurous decapod crustaceans, inhabiting various tropical regions; the land-crabs. Besides Gecarcinus, the family contains the genera Cardisoma and Uca. Also written Geocarcinidæ.

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