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blue crab
noun
: a large bluish-green edible crab (Callinectes sapidus of the family Portunidae) of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
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Blue Crab Cooked blue crab is another zinc-rich option.
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Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025
Start your day with a morning coffee, drop by for a lunch meeting to dine on tasty salade niçoise and pinsa, or come here for date night to enjoy their blue crab toast and linguine with clams.
—Rana Good, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Extra-lumpy with minimal filler, the cakes let blue crab, the pride and joy of Charm City, shine.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2025
As the room rotates to serve up gorgeous views of Manhattan, dig into fried artichokes, a jumbo lump blue crab cake, and a bone-in rib eye.
—Ellen Carpenter, AFAR Media, 17 July 2025
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Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025
Start your day with a morning coffee, drop by for a lunch meeting to dine on tasty salade niçoise and pinsa, or come here for date night to enjoy their blue crab toast and linguine with clams.
—Rana Good, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Extra-lumpy with minimal filler, the cakes let blue crab, the pride and joy of Charm City, shine.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2025
As the room rotates to serve up gorgeous views of Manhattan, dig into fried artichokes, a jumbo lump blue crab cake, and a bone-in rib eye.
—Ellen Carpenter, AFAR Media, 17 July 2025
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“Blue crab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blue%20crab. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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