| 单词 | porcelain crab |
| 释义 | > as lemmasporcelain crab porcelain crab n. [probably after French Porcellane (1809 or earlier) or its etymon scientific Latin Porcellana (see porcellanian n. and adj.); compare earlier porcellanian n.] a crab of the genus Porcellana or the family Porcellanidae, having a smooth carapace and commonly found beneath stones in shallow water along rocky coasts. 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 1854 Househ. Words 15 July 508/2 A Porcelain crab, or Hairy Broadclaw..is a crab with..fringed swimming plates..large foot-jaws, and antennae longer than the body. 1949 C. M. Yonge Sea Shore xi. 155 Under stones where there is mud lives the hairy porcelain crab, Porcellana platycheles... A smaller species, P. longicornis, the minute porcelain crab, lives..always clear of mud. 2003 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 7 July 3 e Two species of porcelain crab are native to the cold waters of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. < as lemmas |
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