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box crab

noun

Definition of box crab

1 : a crab of the tropical oxystomatous family Calappidae
2 : a large rough anomuran crab (Lopholithodes foraminatus) of the Pacific coast of North America

— called also shamefaced crab

History and Etymology for box crab

so called from the way the legs fold against the carapace, resembling a box

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