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horseshoe crab

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
horseshoe crab

▶noun a large marine arthropod with a domed horseshoe-shaped shell and a long tail spine. [Limulus polyphemus (N. America) and other species.]

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