crab
1. decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
decapod crustacean, decapod
• Hyponyms:
stone crab, Menippe mercenaria, hard-shell crab, soft-shell crab, soft-shelled crab,
Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, rock crab, Cancer irroratus, Jonah crab, Cancer borealis,
swimming crab, fiddler crab, pea crab, king crab, Alaska crab, Alaskan king crab,
Alaska king crab, Paralithodes camtschatica, spider crab
• Member Holonyms:
Brachyura, suborder Brachyura
2. a quarrelsome grouch
• Syn:
crabby person
• Derivationally related forms:
crabby
• Hypernyms:
grouch, grump, crank, churl, crosspatch
3. the edible flesh of any of various crabs
• Syn:
crabmeat
• Hypernyms:
shellfish
• Hyponyms:
blue crab, crab legs, soft-shell crab, soft-shelled crab, Japanese crab,
Alaska king crab, Alaskan king crab, king crab, Alaska crab, Dungeness crab, stone crab
• Part Holonyms:
crab cocktail
4. a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
• Syn:
crab louse, pubic louse, Phthirius pubis
• Hypernyms:
louse, sucking louse
• Member Holonyms:
Phthirius, genus Phthirius, Phthirus, genus Phthirus
5. a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
- he caught a crab and lost the race
• Hypernyms:
rowing, row
1. direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
• Topics:
air travel, aviation, air
• Hypernyms:
steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct,
point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. scurry sideways like a crab
• Hypernyms:
scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
3. fish for crab
• Hypernyms:
fish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- In the summer they like to go out and crab
4. complain
- What was he hollering about?
• Syn:
gripe, bitch, grouse, beef, squawk,
bellyache, holler
• Derivationally related forms:
bellyacher (for: bellyache), squawk (for: squawk), squawker (for: squawk), beef (for: beef), gripe (for: gripe)
• Hypernyms:
complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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