land crab
1Land crab — Land Land, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land. ] 1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a… …
2land crab — noun 1. : any of certain crabs chiefly of the family Gecarinidae of the coasts of warm countries that live mostly upon land and breed in the sea and that include many forms (as Gecarinus ruricola) that attain considerable size and are eaten by… …
3land crab — any of several crabs, esp. of the family Gecarcinidae, that live chiefly upon land, returning to the sea to breed. [1630 40] * * * ▪ invertebrate any crab of the family Gecarcinidae (order Decapoda of the class Crustacea), typically… …
4Land crab — Taxobox name = Gecarcinidae image caption = Cardisoma armatum regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Crustacea classis = Malacostraca ordo = Decapoda infraordo = Brachyura superfamilia= Grapsoidea familia = Gecarcinidae subdivision… …
5land crab — n. crab which spends all or most of its life on dry land …
6land crab — noun a crab that lives in burrows on land and migrates to the sea to breed. [Family Gecarcinidae.] …
7land crab — /ˈlænd kræb/ (say land krab) noun any of several crabs, especially of the family Gecarcinidae, which are partially adapted to terrestrial life. Land crabs of varied species occur in many tropical regions …
8land-crab — a person who is not a fisherman (Newfoundland) …
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10great land crab — noun : a large swift moving dull grayish land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) of the family Gecarcinidae that is widely distributed from southern Florida and the West Indies to Brazil, is chiefly nocturnal, and lives in deep burrows or the open fields… …
