Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

land crab

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: land crab
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the land-based crabs of the family Gecarcinidae.

noun

Any of various other crabs of terrestrial habits, such as of the families Gecarcinucidae and Sesarmidae.

Example Sentences

"'No,' said the lad, he was not afraid; he thought they never had seen any sign of his being afraid, or using tricks as the land crabs might do, and he would prove it to them, for now he would go with them in the ship, but on the condition that they bought three cords of birch logs, exactly measured, and that he was to have the command of the ship, as if he was the skipper, on a certain day."

Inflected Forms

land crabs (plural)

Phrases

black land crab blue land crab giant blue land crab great land crab mulatto land crab white land crab

Questions

What does land crab mean?: Any of the land-based crabs of the family Gecarcinidae.

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