Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hard-shell_crab

1 sense of hard-shell crab

Sense 1
hard-shell crab -- (edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell)
       => crab -- (decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers)