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Meanings of fiddler crab in English

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Usage of fiddler crab in English
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The curious crustacean known as the " fiddler crab" is unusually numerous in the marshes of Long Island, this summer.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870
2
It's about eleven feet tall, black iron, but one arm is hugely swollen, a great scythelike claw like a fiddler crab's.
Soon I will be invincible
3
Female sand fiddler crabs prefer males with a good quality claw and snap.
BBC
4
Fiddler crabs normally put up a claw and scoot away if you approach.
The new yorker
5
The other showed fiddler crabs and other creatures that provide a natural drainage for the meadows inhabited by them.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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Fiddler crabs darted along the waterline, and seagulls and terns flew low, searching for their last morsels until morning.
Fortunate harbor
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Courting male fiddler crabs Uca beebei sometimes build pillars of mud at the openings to their burrows in which crabs mate.
Pubmed
8
The sand fiddler crabs on Crescent Beach experience a semi-diurnal tidal regime -when there are two high tides and two low tides every day.
BBC
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I can remember vast marshy fields with millions of fiddler crabs scuttling over them, and more mud than I had ever seen in my life.
Memoirs