Prawn vs. Crab — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Prawn and Crab
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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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