| 单词 | blue crab |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue crab blue crab n. any of several crabs of a bluish colour; esp. the edible Callinectes sapidus of the east coast of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > miscellaneous or unspecified types of crab sea lion1601 blue crab1763 violet crab1774 angular crab1777 red crab1825 softshell1830 turtle-crab1838 porcellanian1840 Thelphusian1842 lady crab1844 oxystome1852 lobster-crab1854 porcelain crab1854 ochidore1855 havil1857 mask crab1857 sepoy crab1857 violet land crab1864 frog crab1876 stool-crab1880 paper-shell1890 porter crab1904 mitten crab1934 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. xxvii. 251 The Blue Crab of Nieuhoff is a foot and a half long, and is of a purple colour, spotted with white. 1812 J. Evans Beauties Eng. & Wales XVII. 154 [Cancer] mænus... Common blue crab. 1883 Engineering 14 Sept. 231 The scoop net is the commonest appliance for taking the blue crab, but they are often caught by baited lines without hooks. 1911 Biol. Bull. 21 239 In handling..one is struck immediately by the remarkable visual powers of the blue crab. 2002 Sport Fishing Sept. 53/1 The gap width makes it easy to thread the hook into chunks of blue crab—the perfect bait. < as lemmas |
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