american lady crab

1. 1.

   brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States

   Synonymslady crabcalico crabOvalipes ocellatus

   Broaderswimming crab

   Part ofOvalipes

Questions about american lady crab

What does american lady crab mean?

american lady crab means "brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States".

What is another word for american lady crab?

Close synonyms include lady crab, calico crab, Ovalipes ocellatus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american lady crab a common word?

american lady crab is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.