swimming : Idioms & Phrases


Swimming bell

  • (Zoöl.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora.
Webster 1913

Swimming crab

  • noun marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunidæ, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.
Webster 1913