fiddler crab

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   burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male

   Broadercrab

   Part ofUca

Questions about fiddler crab

What does fiddler crab mean?

fiddler crab means "burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male".

Is fiddler crab a common word?

fiddler 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.