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Definition of Jonah crab
1. Noun. Large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America.
Definition of Jonah crab
1. Noun. ''Cancer borealis'', a strong-clawed crab found on the Atlantic coast of North America. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jonah Crab
Literary usage of Jonah crab
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Jonah crab, a crab of southern New England (Cancer borealis) related to the common
edible species, but more robust and with a thicker, harder shell. ..."
2. Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes by Charles Wendell Townsend (1913)
"This is the Jonah crab, the origin of whose suggestive name is to me unknown.
The sea-urchin, lover of rocky bottoms, ..."
3. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"The northern or Jonah crab. Similar to the preceding but larger, with a more
convex and much rougher carapace; color brick red: Labrador to Connecticut, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"An indefinite general name for a variety of crabs customarily living on rocky
bottoms, as, along the New England coast, the Jonah crab. ..."
5. Adventure Guide to the Champlain & Hudson River Valleys by Patricia Foulke, Robert Foulke (2003)
"... ginger-cilantro eggplant "caviar," Jonah crab, sweet corn and avocado salad
with pepper coulis, and marinated grilled quail on mushroom mango salad. ..."
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