purse crab
noun
Any crab of the family Leucosiidae, in which the females have a rounded chamber on the abdomen in which the egg mass is enclosed; especially a crab of the genus Persephona, of the West Atlantic.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in James Petiver (c1665–1718), botanist and entomologist.
- microsomia
- microsommite
- microspecies
- microspectroscope
- microspectroscopic
- microspectroscopy
- microspermous
- Microsphaera
- microsphere
- microspheric
- microspherulitic
- microspike
- microspined
- microsporangiate
- microsporangium
- microspore
- microsporic
- microsporidian
- microsporidiosis
- microsporidium
- microsporocyte
- microsporogenesis
- microsporon
- microsporophyll
- Microsporum