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GENUS UCA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Uca mean?

• GENUS UCA (noun)
The noun GENUS UCA has 1 sense:

1. fiddler crabs

Familiarity information: GENUS UCA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS UCA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Fiddler crabs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Uca; Uca

Hypernyms ("genus Uca" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Uca"):

fiddler crab (burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male)

Holonyms ("genus Uca" is a member of...):

Brachyura; suborder Brachyura (an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface)

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