noun
stone crabs
• Syn: ↑genus Menippe
• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Brachyura, ↑suborder Brachyura
• Member Meronyms: ↑stone crab, ↑Menippe mercenaria
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/meuh nip"ee/, n. Class. Myth.
a daughter of Orion who, with her sister Metioche, offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.