BRACHYURAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Typical crabs

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("brachyuran" is a kind of...):

crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)

Holonyms ("brachyuran" is a member of...):

Brachyura; suborder Brachyura (an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface)

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