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Cancriform :: Cancriform (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped..

Damnableness :: Damnableness (n.) The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.

Crab :: Crab (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.

Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..

Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The reproduction of a part which has been removed or destroyed; re-formation; -- a process especially characteristic of a many of the lower animals; as, the regeneration of lost feelers, limbs, and claws by spiders and crabs..

Metagastric :: Metagastric (a.) Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.

Scrabble :: Scrabble (v. t.) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper..

Limulus :: Limulus (n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot..

Merostomata :: Merostomata (n. pl.) A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus..

Scrabbled :: Scrabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Scrabbl.

Ocypodian :: Ocypodian (n.) One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name..

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.

Triangulares :: Triangulares (n. pl.) The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider..

Thornback :: Thornback (n.) The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).

Maia :: Maia (n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado)..

Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons..

Metope :: Metope (n.) The face of a crab.

Urva :: Urva (n.) The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder..

Scraber :: Scraber (n.) The Manx shearwater.

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