swimming crab

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   marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming

   Broadercrab

   NarrowerEnglish lady crabAmerican lady crabblue crab

   Part ofPortunidae

Questions about swimming crab

What does swimming crab mean?

swimming crab means "marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming".

Is swimming crab a common word?

swimming 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.