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Crab Kræb Sea Creature Shell Legs Noun Informal

A crab is a sea creature with a shell, five pairs of legs, and claws, moving sideways, or its flesh eaten as food.

A crab is a sea creature with a shell, five pairs of legs, and claws, moving sideways, or its flesh eaten as food.

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]蟹;螃蟹 A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
  • Crab is the flesh of this creature eaten as food.蟹肉

Oxford crab / kræb ; NAmE kræb / noun _crustaceans_comp.jpg _crab.jpg 1 [countable ] a sea creature with a hard shell, eight legs and two pincers(= curved and pointed arms for catching and holding things). Crabsmove sideways on land. 蟹;螃蟹 see also
hermit crab
2 [uncountable ] meat from a crab,used for food 蟹肉 dressed crab 经加工的螃蟹 3 crabs ( informal) the condition caused by having lice(called crab lice) in the hair around the genitals 阴虱寄生病 crab crabs crabbed crabbing
crab / kræb ; NAmE kræb /
LDC
crabcrab /kræb/ ●●○ noun
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1crab (1) [countable] a sea animal with a hard shell, five legs on each side, and two large clawscrustacean2[uncountable] the flesh of this animal that you can cook and eat:  crab meat dressed crab (=prepared for eating)3crabs [plural] informal a medical condition in which a type of louse (=insect) is in the hair around sexual organs4[singular] American English informal someone who becomes annoyed easily about unimportant things
WDF

crab

[kræb]crabbed, crabbing, crabs

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crabs[3108]
蟹(94%),捕蟹(2%),抱怨(2%),阴虱(1%),使横行(1%)
n.螃蟹;蟹肉;脾气乖戾的人;起重机
vt.抱怨;破坏;使偏航
vi.捕蟹;发牢骚;抱怨

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