blue crab
1. Atlantic crab; most common source of fresh crabmeat • Hypernyms: crab, crabmeat • Part Holonyms: Callinectes sapidus 2. bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America • Syn: Callinectes sapidus • Hypernyms: swimming crab • Member Holonyms: Callinectes, genus Callinectes
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