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blue crabs

blue crabs is the plural of blue crab.

Meaning of blue crab

Noun

blue crab (plural blue crabs)

  1. Any member of either of two groups of crab
    • The blue crab is a highly important food source for its natural predators such as rays and sharks in its natural habitat, but in the north of Italy it has no predators and is reproducing without limits and destroying the local fauna.2023 August 22, Lorenzo Tondo, “Invasive blue crabs threaten economy of whole regions of Italy, official say”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. Any crab of genus Callinectes
  3. especially of species Callinectes sapidus of eastern US
  4. A crab of species Portunus pelagicus
  5. (by ellipsis) Any of several species of crab with three-part vernacular names. (See Derived terms and Related terms below.)
  6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue crab.

Questions about blue crabs

What is blue crabs the plural of?
Blue crabs is the plural of blue crab.

Words near blue crabs in the dictionary

  1. blue cohosh
  2. blue cohoshes
  3. blue corn
  4. Blue Cow
  5. blue crab
  6. blue crabs
  7. blue crane
  8. blue cranes
  9. blue creeping gromwell
  10. blue creeping gromwells
  11. Blue Crown

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