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land crabs

land crabs is the plural of land crab.

Meaning of land crab

Noun

land crab (plural land crabs)

  1. Any of the land-based crabs of the family Gecarcinidae.
    • 'No,' said the lad, he was not afraid; he thought they never had seen any sign of his being afraid, or using tricks as the land crabs might do, and he would prove it to them, for now he would go with them in the ship, but on the condition that they bought three cords of birch logs, exactly...1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 187
  2. Any of various other crabs of terrestrial habits, such as of the families Gecarcinucidae and Sesarmidae.

Questions about land crabs

What is land crabs the plural of?
Land crabs is the plural of land crab.

Words near land crabs in the dictionary

  1. Land camera
  2. Land cameras
  3. land clearer
  4. land clearers
  5. land crab
  6. land crabs
  7. land cress
  8. land cruiser
  9. land cruisers
  10. Land Day
  11. Land Dayak

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