stone crab

noun

1. pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor; found in Florida but now very rare

• Hypernyms: ↑crab, ↑crabmeat

• Part Holonyms: ↑Menippe mercenaria

2. large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida)

• Syn: ↑Menippe mercenaria

• Hypernyms: ↑crab

• Member Holonyms: ↑Menippe, ↑genus Menippe

* * *

noun

1. : a large edible crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the United States and in the Caribbean area

2. : any of several spiny crabs of the genus Lithodes; especially : a crab (L. maia) of the European coasts

* * *

an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.

[1700-10, Amer.]

* * *

stone crab see ↑king crab under ↑king

• • •

Main Entry: ↑stone

* * *

stone crab,

an edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the southern United States.

* * *

n. a large, heavy, edible crab of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean area. ● Menippe mercenaria, family Xanthidae