crabnoun [ C or U ]
uk/kræb/us/kræb/crab noun [ C or U ] (SEA CREATURE)
B2 a sea creature with five pairs of legs and a round, flat body covered by a shell, or its flesh eaten as food:
We walked along the beach collecting small crabs.
All the shops on the seafront had crab for sale.
This crab meat/salad is delicious!
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Fish & seafood
- abalone
- bloater
- caviar
- ceviche
- crawfish
- fish oil
- fish stick
- fishcake
- gravadlax
- grouper
- Omega-3
- pollack
- prawn cocktail
- roe
- sashimi
- shrimp
- shrimp cocktail
- swordfish
- trout
- tuna
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Sea creatures
crab noun [ C or U ] (DISEASE)
crabs [ plural ] also crab lice
small insects that can live in the hair around the sex organs
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Insect names
- anopheles
- ant
- aphid
- beastie
- bedbug
- daddy longlegs
- deathwatch beetle
- dragonfly
- earwig
- earworm
- insect
- ladybird
- lice
- lightning bug
- locust
- silverfish
- stick insect
- termite
- tortoiseshell butterfly
- tsetse fly
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