NOUN
- large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse
How To Use horseshoe crab In A Sentence
- A dried-out horseshoe crab is a delicate thing and there's no way it would survive the flight in my checked baggage. Horseshoe Crabs and the TSA
- Out of interest, here are the Ultra Fractal files - limulus. ufr and limulus. ufm - for a 'horseshoe crab' biomorph I designed in Fractint a while back. Archive 2003-11-01
- The living horseshoe crab, Limulus; compare with Fig. 38.
- Virginia refused to comply with its quota, and now faces a complete ban on horseshoe crabbing.
- But beneath its shell, the segmented character of the horseshoe crab is clear.
- Immense clades come and go without leaving any survivors, and these few weirdos keep chugging along, sometimes in refugia (tuatara) and sometimes not (horseshoe crabs). Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’?
- Studies of fouled arthropods include horseshoe crabs, isopods, stomatopods, lobsters, and true crabs.
- Miller said he also hopes to study the relationship, if any, between Doliodus problematicus and giant, ancient sea scorpions, a type of eurypterid related to horseshoe crabs.
- There’s a substance in the blood of the horseshoe crab— LAL, which stands for limulus amoebocyte lysate—which is used to test medical drugs for contamination and to detect vitamin B-12 deficiencies. Devlin’s Light
- ‘And the best bait for conch was horseshoe crab,’ Niles, the New Jersey biologist, said.
