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ˈland-crab
[See land n.1 11.]
Any of the various species of crabs that live mostly on land but resort to the sea for breeding.
1638T. Verney To Sir E. Verney in Verney Papers (1853) 195 Thees land-crabs are innumerable,..they are very like our sea-crabs, but nothing att all soe good, becaus most of them are poysonous. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 74 Some Papua people brought me land crabs, shaped like lobsters. 1871S. Mateer Travancore 92 Landcrabs burrow in the rice fields, and are used as food by the slave castes.
transf.1665Hooke Microgr. 178 The little Mite-worm, which I call a Land-crab. |