| 单词 | stone-crab |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstone-crab stone-crab n. (a) name for various species of crab (see quots.); (b) applied locally in U.S. to the dobson or hellgrammite, the larva of a neuropterous insect, used as a bait in angling. ΚΠ 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. i Cancer saxatilis..Stone Crab. 1853 T. Bell Hist. Brit. Stalk-eyed Crustacea 165 Northern Stone-crab. Lithodes Maia. 1884 R. Rathbun in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 772 The Stone Crab, Menippe mercenarius,..is one of the two edible species of Crabs occurring upon the Southern Atlantic coast of the United States. < as lemmas |
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