crablike
English edit
Etymology edit
crab + -like. In sense “moving sideways”, due to crab’s sideways walk.
Adjective edit
crablike (comparative more crablike, superlative most crablike)
- Having some characteristics of a crab
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
- It was in this stream, I recalled from newspaper items, that one of the morbid crablike beings had been seen floating after the floods.
- Walking or moving sideways
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
having some characteristics of a crab
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