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Prawn vs. Crab — What's the Difference?

Prawn vs. Crab — What's the Difference?

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Prawn

Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (which is a member of the order decapoda), some of which can be eaten.The term "prawn" is used particularly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Commonwealth nations, for large swimming crustaceans or shrimp, especially those with commercial significance in the fishing industry. Shrimp that are present in this category often belong to the suborder Dendrobranchiata.

Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) (Greek: βραχύς, romanized: brachys = short, οὐρά / οura = tail), usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the world's oceans, in fresh water, and on land, are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, and have a single pair of pincers.

Prawn

Any of various shrimps, especially one that is large or inhabits fresh water.

Crab

Any of various chiefly marine decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, having a hard carapace that covers a broad flattened cephalothorax with a small abdomen tucked beneath it, and an anterior pair of legs that are large and pincerlike.

Prawn

The flesh of a prawn, used as food.
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Crab

Any of various similar decapod crustaceans, such as a hermit crab or a king crab.

Prawn

To fish for prawns.

Crab

Crabmeat.

Prawn

A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.

Crab

A crab louse.

Prawn

(Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.

Crab

Crabs(Slang) Infestation by crab lice.

Prawn

Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
She's a prawn!

Crab

The maneuvering of an aircraft partially into a crosswind to compensate for drift.

Prawn

A fool, an idiot.

Crab

A machine for handling or hoisting heavy weights.

Prawn

Alternative form of porn.

Crab

A crabapple tree or its fruit.

Prawn

(intransitive) To fish for prawns.

Crab

A quarrelsome, ill-tempered person.

Prawn

Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennæ. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palæmon, Palæmonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palæmon serratus.

Crab

See Cancer.

Prawn

Any of various edible decapod crustaceans

Crab

To hunt or catch crabs.

Prawn

Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible

Crab

To scurry sideways in the manner of a crab.

Prawn

Fish for prawns

Crab

To drift diagonally or sideways, especially when under tow.

Crab

To direct an aircraft into a crosswind.

Crab

To direct (an aircraft) partly into a crosswind to eliminate drift.

Crab

To cause to move or scurry sideways.

Crab

To find fault; criticize someone or something.

Crab

(Informal) To interfere with and ruin; spoil.

Crab

(Informal) To find fault with; complain about.

Crab

To make ill-tempered or sullen.

Crab

A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.

Crab

(uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.

Crab

A bad-tempered person.

Crab

An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.

Crab

The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
The pilot had to hold fifteen degrees of crab during the approach to keep her plane from getting blown off the localizer course.

Crab

The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.

Crab

(slang) A playing card with the rank of three.

Crab

(rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.

Crab

A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.

Crab

(dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

Crab

The crab apple or wild apple.

Crab

The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.

Crab

A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.

Crab

A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.

Crab

A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.

Crab

A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

Crab

A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Crab

The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

Crab

(informal) carabiner

Crab

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.

Crab

To ruin.

Crab

(intransitive) To complain.

Crab

(transitive) To complain about.

Crab

(intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward by analogy with the movement of a crab.

Crab

To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.

Crab

To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.

Crab

To move (a camera) sideways.

Crab

, to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.

Crab

(rare) To back out of something.

Crab

(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

Crab

To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.

Crab

(British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

Crab

One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

Crab

The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

Crab

A crab apple; - so named from its harsh taste.
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,Then nightly sings the staring owl.

Crab

A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.

Crab

A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.

Crab

To make sour or morose; to embitter.
Sickness sours or crabs our nature.

Crab

To beat with a crabstick.

Crab

To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

Crab

Sour; rough; austere.
The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast.

Crab

Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers

Crab

A quarrelsome grouch

Crab

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer

Crab

The fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

Crab

The edible flesh of any of various crabs

Crab

Infests the pubic region of the human body

Crab

A stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply;
He caught a crab and lost the race

Crab

Direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

Crab

Scurry sideways like a crab

Crab

Fish for crab

Crab

Complain;
What was he hollering about?

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