| 单词 | sand crab |
| 释义 | > as lemmassand crab sand crab n. (a) a crab of the family Ocypodidæ; (b) the Lady Crab, Platyonichus ocellatus. also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > member of Portunidae (lady-crab) velvet crab1681 green crab1763 lady crab1844 sand crab1844 shore-crab1850 devil crab1871 partan1880 velvet fiddler crab1882 shuttle-crab1889 sook1950 muddy1953 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 1844 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. vi. 6 This [sc. Platycarcinus irroratus] and the succeeding species [sc. P. sayi] are both designated by our fishermen as the Spotted Crab and Sand Crab. a1851 J. G. Dalyell Powers of Creator (1853) II. 183 Cancer (portunus) pusillus.—The Sand Crab. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 642/1 The swift-footed sand-crabs (Ocypoda) are exclusively terrestrial. 1883 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang 24 The calling of each other names, such as ‘sand-crabs’ and ‘mud-turtles’, is one of the harmless ways in which they ventilate their spleen. 1884 R. Rathbun in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 774 The ‘Lady Crab’, or ‘Sand Crab’ [Platyonichus ocellatus], is abundant..from Cape Cod to Florida. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xii. 199 The little cream sand-crabs swift as impatient foam. 1952 W. J. Dakin et al. Austral. Seashores xv. 190 The sand bubbler-crab... This little crab may be found..resting at the bottom of a vertical chimney-like burrow. 1955 V. Palmer Let Birds Fly 108 No, you ol' sandcrab, you don't know Charlie. < as lemmas |
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