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Another word for crab

Noun

  1. A person who habitually complains or grumbles

    2. See also:

    happy

Another word for crab

Verb

  1. To express negative feelings, especially of dissatisfaction or resentment

    2. See also:

    happy

    feelings

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Another word for crab

Noun

  1. A short-tailed or soft-tailed crustacean

    2. See also:

    shellfish

  2. A grouchy person

    3. See also:

    grouch

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • It was a great horseshoe crab--the first one I had ever seen.

  • It and the crab are FIG.

  • - Gastric Teeth of Crab and Lobster.

  • - For the present, as of old, the true Brachyura are divided into four tribes: Cyclometopa, with arched front as in the common eatable crab; Catometopa, with front bent down as in the land-crabs and the little oyster-crab; Oxyrhyncha, with sharpened beak-like front as in the various spider-crabs; Oxystomata, including the Raninida, and named not from the character of the front but from that of the buccal frame which is usually narrowed forwards.

  • polyphemus) is common on the coasts of the United States, and is known as the king-crab or horse-shoe crab.

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