| 单词 | fiddler-crab |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfiddler-crab c. A small crab of the genus Gelasimus. Also fiddler-crab. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > member of Ocypodidae (fiddler-crab and sand crab) fiddler1714 calling crab1832 lady crab1844 sand crab1844 sand fiddler1852 fighting crab1868 1714 J. Lawson Hist. Carolina 162 Fidlars are a sort of small Crabs, that lie in Holes in the Marshes. 1867 W. B. Lord Crab, Shrimp, & Lobster Lore 29 A ‘Fidler-Crab’ (as it is sometimes called from the rapidity with which it works its elbows). 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlviii. 479 The drainage-ditches were everywhere alive with little crabs—‘fiddlers’. < as lemmas |
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