stone crab

Questions about stone crab

What does stone crab mean?

stone crab means "pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor; found in Florida but now very rare". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for stone crab?

Close synonyms include Menippe mercenaria. 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 stone crab a common word?

stone 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.