单词 | stone crab |
释义 | stone crab in American English US a large, common, edible, dark-bluish crab (Menippe mercenaria) found in the coastal mud flats of the SE U.S. and in the Caribbean stone crab in American Englishnoun an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws Word origin [1700–10, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1700–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camera, cozy, emphatic, envelope, hump |
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