What does soft-shell crab mean?

soft-shell crab means "freshly molted crab with new shell still tender and flexible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for soft-shell crab?

Close synonyms include soft-shelled crab, soft-shelled crab. 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 soft-shell crab a common word?

soft-shell 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.

soft-shell crab — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

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2 sensesA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
freshly molted crab with new shell still tender and flexible
Synonymssoft-shelled crab
Broadercrab
2.
edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell
Synonymssoft-shelled crab
Broadercrab

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