We had seen armfuls of crabs emerging from beneath the sand on the beach.
She was stranded and died on Nikumaroro Island, and her remains were carried off by crabs.
It's amazing what a few old guys can do with a little bit of charm and a whole lot of crabs.
The term exoskeleton refers to the hard outer shell found on insects and certain animals like grasshoppers and crabs.
The best way to enjoy the crabs is to play up their crackly edible shell with a batter coating.
It is also found on the carapace of crabs and Limulus, and on mollusks.
Expensive pests, these crabs; for they bore into the levees, and ruin them.
Along the coasts there are clams and oysters, mussels and crabs.
We have come to a port of crabs and lobsters, and of painters.
There were crabs on every one, and on some of them there were two.
crustacean, Old English crabba, from a general Germanic root (cf. Dutch krab, Old High German krebiz, German Krabbe, Old Norse krabbi "crab"), related to Low German krabben, Dutch krabelen "to scratch, claw," from PIE root *gerbh- "to scratch, carve" (see carve). The constellation name is attested in English from c.1000; the Crab Nebula (1868), however, is in Taurus, and is so called for its shape. French crabe (13c.) is from Dutch.
"fruit of the wild apple tree," c.1300, crabbe, perhaps from Scandinavian scrab, of obscure origin (cf. Swedish krabbäpple). The combination of "bad-tempered, combative" and "sour" in the two nouns crab naturally yielded a verb meaning of "to vex, irritate" (c.1400), later "to complain irritably, find fault" (c.1500). The noun meaning "sour person" is from 1570s.
An infestation of crab lice in the pubic area: Her friends slobbered, ripped off girls' dresses at parties, had crabs (1840+)