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Stone Crab

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Noun

1. stone crab

pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor; found in Florida but now very rare

2. menippe mercenaria, stone crab

large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Stone Crab

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US
a large, common, edible, dark-bluish crab (Menippe mercenaria) found in the coastal mud flats of the SE U.S. and in the Caribbean

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Stone Crab

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n.
A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) whose claws are harvested for food. It is found in Atlantic coastal waters of the southern United States, Mexico, and some Caribbean islands.

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