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1. Atlantic crab; most common source of fresh crabmeat

2. bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America

1. : any of several largely blue swimming crabs of the genus Callinectes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States; especially : a crab (C. sapidus) that is particulary common from Texas to Delaware and is used extensively as food, providing the soft-shelled crabs of the markets

2. Australia : an important edible crab (Portunus pelagicus)

an edible crab, Callinectes sapidus, having a dark green body and bluish legs, found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America.

[1880-85, Amer.]

blue crab,

the most common edible crab of eastern North America.

n. a large edible swimming crab of the Atlantic coast of North America. ● Callinectes sapidus, family Portunidae