Usually means: Ancient marine arthropod with carapace.
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  1. horseshoe crab: Merriam-Webster
  2. horseshoe crab: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horseshoe crab: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. horseshoe crab: Vocabulary.com
  5. horseshoe-crab: Wordnik
  6. horseshoe crab: Wiktionary
  7. horseshoe crab: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. horseshoe crab: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. horseshoe crab: Dictionary.com
  10. Horseshoe crab: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. horseshoe crab: Rhymezone
  12. horseshoe crab: FreeDictionary.org
  13. horseshoe crab: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. horseshoe crab: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. horseshoe crab: Collins English Dictionary

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  1. horseshoe crab: Encyclopedia

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  1. horseshoe crab: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (horseshoe crab)

noun:  Any extinct or extant chelicerate in the order Xiphosura, actually more related to arachnids than true crabs.
noun:  (especially) Any extant xiphosuran in the family Limulidae.

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