blue crab

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blue crab

noun blue crabs

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.
Any crab of genus Callinectes
especially of species Callinectes sapidus of eastern US
A crab of species Portunus pelagicus
Any of several species of crab with three-part vernacular names. (See Derived terms and Related terms below.)
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue crab.

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@misc{blue_crab_2026,
  title = {blue crab},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blue%20crab},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}