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Carapace :: Carapace (n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals..

Ill-tempered :: Ill-tempered (a.) Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

Hydractinian :: Hydractinian (n.) Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata..

Maian :: Maian (n.) Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae..

Maxilliped :: Maxilliped (n.) One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillae. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw..

Pinnothere :: Pinnothere (n.) A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under Oyster..

Crab :: Crab (n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body..

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.

Leucosoid :: Leucosoid (a.) Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa..

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

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

Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species)..

Nefandous :: Nefandous (a.) Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable.

Grimness :: Grimness (n.) Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

Execrable :: Execrable (a.) Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch..

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..

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

Crabbed :: Crabbed (n.) Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting..

Austere :: Austere () Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine..

Scraber :: Scraber (n.) The black guillemot.

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