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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A marine crab with a fully hardened shell, especially an edible crab in this stage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell
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