sand crab

sand crab
noun
1.
a.
(1) : lady crab 1
(2) : an Australian swimming crab (Ovalipes bipustulatus)
b. : a crab of Ocypode or a related genus

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any of several crabs that live on sandy beaches, as the ghost crab or mole crab.
[1835-45]

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sand crab,
any terrestrial American crab of a group living in burrows high up on sandy beaches; beach crab.

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n. a crab that lives on or burrows in sand, esp. one related to fiddler and ghost crabs. Genus Uca, family Ocypodidae

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