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Sidle (SY-duhl)
To move sideways like a crab
Common clues: Walk laterally; Walk like a crab; Emulate a crab; Move furtively
Crossword puzzle frequency: 3 times a year
Frequency in English language: 59080 / 86800
Video: Captain John’s hermit crab dance
Crabs
are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which
typically have a very short "tail", or where the abdomen
is entirely hidden under the thorax. They are generally covered
with a thick exoskeleton, and are armed with a single pair of
chelae (claws). Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans;
there are also many freshwater and terrestrial crabs, particularly
in tropical regions. Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, only a
few millimetres wide, to the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span
of up to 4 m.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Crab".
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