Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

butterfly crab

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.54 in modern English

Syllables: but-ter-fly- crab
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of shallow-water king crab (Cryptolithodes typicus) native to coastal regions of the northeastern Pacific Ocean

Example Sentences

"Hart, Josephine F. L. (18 May 1965), “Life History and Larval Development of Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt (Decapoda, Anomura) from British Columbia”, in Crustaceana, volume 8, number 3, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 255–276: “The turtle or butterfly crab, Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt, 1849, is a crustacean of [...] the family Lithodidae.”"
"Fretwell, Kelly; Starzomski, Brian (2015), “Butterfly crab • Cryptolithodes typicus”, in Biodiversity of the Central Coast, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2018: “The butterfly crab's range extends from northern Alaska to southern California.”"

Etymology

The nickname "butterfly crab" refers to the crab's butterfly-shaped carapace.

Inflected Forms

butterfly crabs (plural)

Questions

What does butterfly crab mean?: A species of shallow-water king crab (Cryptolithodes typicus) native to coastal regions of the northeastern Pacific Ocean
Where does butterfly crab come from?: The nickname "butterfly crab" refers to the crab's butterfly-shaped carapace.

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