Definitions for land-crab

land-crab land crab

Land-Crab is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in land-crab (-aabcdlnr).

Definitions for land-crab

noun

  1. any of several crabs, especially of the family Gecarcinidae, that live chiefly upon land, returning to the sea to breed.

Origin of land-crab

First recorded in 1630-40

Examples for land-crab

The same god was also supposed to be incarnate in the octopus, and also in the land crab.

Though a land crab the Cocoa-Nut cousin is fond of the sea, and takes a bath in it every night.

The land crab may be seen scuttling to his hole, and at night the rats besiege the houses and the artificial gardens.

Its rotund form and subequal chelae suggest the land crab, Geocarcinus, but exact determination is of course impossible.

The laugh of a land crab—if the beast could laugh—would doubtless resemble Captain Wigmore's expression of mirth.

Till now a "land crab," the land at last threw him overboard.

There was nothing peculiar about him, and if it hadn't been for the land crab's story I'd never have given him a second thought.

A crawfish or "land crab" will serve as a typical medium for describing the method of preparing specimens of this nature.

Word Value for land-crab
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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