crab apple |
a small, hard, sour apple used for making jelly. [2 definitions] |
crab grass |
any of several wild, coarse grasses that easily root, spread, and displace other plants and grasses, esp. in cultivated lawns. |
crab louse |
a louse that infests the human pubic area or armpit and causes severe itching. |
Crab nebula |
a nebula in the constellation Taurus that contains a pulsar. |
fiddler crab |
any of various small burrowing crabs found along coastal regions, the male of which has one front claw much larger than the other. |
flowering crab |
any of several varieties of crab apple that flower profusely in the spring. |
hermit crab |
any of numerous crabs that have soft unprotected abdomens and that live in the discarded shells of mollusks such as snails. |
horseshoe crab |
any of various hard-shelled sea crabs, having a united head and body of horseshoe shape and a long, stiff, pointed tail. |
king crab |
a large crab of North Pacific waters that is valued for its edible flesh; Alaskan king crab. [2 definitions] |
oyster crab |
a small crab that lives as a commensal inside the gill cavities of living oysters and clams. |
palm crab |
a large land-dwelling crab of the South Pacific that feeds on coconuts. |