Crab (disambiguation)
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A crab is a water-dwelling creature, a decapod crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura. A related common meaning is crab meat.
Crab may also refer to:
Other animals
- Anomura, an infraorder containing hermit crabs, king crabs, and other animals that is a sister group to the true crabs (infraorder Brachyura)
- Horseshoe crab, a chelicerate that lays its eggs on beaches and is utilized by the biomedical industry
Mythology
- Cancer (astrology), a sign in the zodiac
- Cancer (Chinese astronomy)
Science
- Cancer (constellation), a stellar constellation
- Crab Nebula, the supernova remnant found in the constellation Taurus
- Crab Pulsar, the central star in the Crab Nebula
- Crab (unit), photometrical unit of X-ray astronomy
- CRAB, an abbreviation for the symptoms of multiple myeloma
Technology
- Crab (cipher), an encryption algorithm based on MD5
- Crab landing, a method of landing a fixed-wing aircraft in a crosswind
Geography
- Crab, Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Crab Brook, a tributary of Stony Brook in central New Jersey
- Crab Creek, Washington
- Crab Creek (Little River), North and South Carolina
- Crab Run (Mahanoy Creek), Pennsylvania
- Crab Run (West Virginia)
- Crab Island (disambiguation)
- Crab Cay, Colombia, a small island in the Caribbean Sea
Music
- Crab canon, a musical form
- Crab Records, a defunct record label
- Crab (scratch), a DJ technique
Sports
- Crab (horse) (1722-1750), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
- Basket Rimini Crabs, an Italian professional basketball team based in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna
- Crab (posture) used in gymnastics, breakdancing, yoga
- Crab or catch a crab, a rowing error
Other uses
- Crabs (film), an upcoming film
- Sherman Crab, a British World War II mine-clearing tank
- Panhard CRAB, a French armoured combat vehicle
- The Crab, an outdoor 1962 painted steel sculpture by Alexander Calder
- Roger Crab (1621–1680), English soldier, haberdasher, herbal doctor and writer
- An athletic move akin to the float in breakdancing
- Crabs, a slang phrase for the parasite Pediculosis pubis
- Crab, a character from WordWorld
See also
- Crab apples, species of the genus Malus other than the table apple Malus domestica
- All pages with titles beginning with Crab
- Krab (disambiguation)
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