hardshell crab
US
noun
A crab, especially an edible crab (Cancer pagurus), that has not recently moulted and so has a fully hardened shell.
- Contrasted with soft-shell crab..
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- mutterer
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- mutteringly
- muttery
- mutt-eye
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- mutton bird
- muttonbirder
- mutton-bird gale
- muttonbirding
- mutton bird islands
- mutton-bird scrub
- mutton-bird tree
- mutton bone
- mutton chops
- mutton-chop whiskered
- mutton chop whiskers
- mutton cloth
- mutton dressed as lamb
- mutton dummy
- mutton fat
- mutton-fish
- mutton-fisted
- mutton flap