0 a type of large crab (= a sea creature with five pairs of legs and a round, flat body covered by a shell) that lives on the Atlantic coast of North America and is eaten as food: --
They talked over a plate of blue crab.
The salt marshes are rich with blue crabs.
The blue crab harvest is a large portion of the commercial watermen's income.
Surveys show that the bay's blue crab population has reached its lowest point in 30 years.
Cleaning blue crabs is a messy job.
For hundreds of years the residents have earned their livelihoods from catching oysters and blue crabs.
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European
May 10, 2021
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Shimmer
blue crab