blue crab

English
Callinectes sapidus

Noun

blue crab (plural blue crabs)

  1. A crab of species Callinectes sapidus
    • 2023 August 22, Lorenzo Tondo, “Invasive blue crabs threaten economy of whole regions of Italy, official say”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      The blue crab is a highly important food source for its natural predators such as rays and sharks in its natural habitat, but in the north of Italy it has no predators and is reproducing without limits and destroying the local fauna.
  2. Ellipsis of blue king crab. (Paralithodes platypus)

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