Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the form of a crab; resembling or related to a crab in structure; brachyurous and decapod, as a crustacean; carcinomorphic. Also cancroid.
  • Cancerous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.
  • adjective Like a cancer; cancerous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having the form of a crab
  • adjective pathology Resembling cancer

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