blue crab

Questions about blue crab

What does blue crab mean?

blue crab means "Atlantic crab; most common source of fresh crabmeat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for blue crab?

Close synonyms include Callinectes sapidus. 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 blue crab a common word?

blue crab is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.