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shore crab

noun

  1. any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus purple shore crab, of the Pacific coast of North America.


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Origin of shore crab1

First recorded in 1840–50
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The researchers at the University of Gothenburg are the first to carry out neurobiological studies by measuring the activity in the brain of a shore crab, through an EEG style measurement.

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Eastern Shore crab processors welcomed the federal government’s planned release of new visas to hire foreign guest workers, but they called it a one-year remedy that fails to address recurring labor shortages.

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Be careful not to walk on eel grass — which juvenile salmon use to hide — and know that turning over a rock could mean ruining a shore crab’s lifelong home.

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Eastern Shore crab houses suffer because they didn’t get the visas needed to hire enough pickers from Mexico.

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Acadia National Park officials said earlier this fall that a molted shell of an Asian shore crab was found along the shore.

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