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werecrab

werecrab noun: a shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crab.

Noun

werecrab (plural werecrabs)

  1. (rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crab.
    • I am a werecrab.1999 August 3, Pinky the Werecrab, "question..", alt.romath.
    • He preached that the Great Spirit had created the Indians but not the whites, whom he hated as the spawn of “an enormous, foul werecrab, which had first crawled out of the sea in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts”; soon an apocalypse would come in which the whites and those Indians who followed...2014, Jeffrey N. Cox, Romanticism in the Shadow of War, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 20

Forms of werecrab

pluralwerecrabs

Origin of werecrab

From were- + crab.

Questions about werecrab

What does werecrab mean?
Werecrab means a shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crab.
What part of speech is werecrab?
Werecrab is a noun.
What is the plural of werecrab?
The plural of werecrab is werecrabs.

Words near werecrab in the dictionary

  1. werecats
  2. werechicken
  3. werechickens
  4. werecow
  5. werecows
  6. werecrab
  7. werecrabs
  8. werecreature
  9. werecreatures
  10. werecritter
  11. werecritters

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