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box crab — noun Etymology: so. called from the way the legs fold against the carapace, resembling a box 1. : a crab of the tropical oxystomatous family Calappidae 2. : a large rough anomuran crab (Lopholithodes foraminatus) of the Pacific coast of No.… … Useful english dictionary
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literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
