"female" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There are limits and seasons for catching female crabs.
- Only female crabs, full of roe, were served.
- You can distinguish male and female blue crabs by the "key" on the belly: males have the Washington Monument; females, the nation's Capitol.
- The female crab drags herself up the beach with the male clamped on her back.
- The female crab stirs the water with her claw to aid the flow of the water.
- This is due to the fact that female crabs brood fertilised eggs on their pleopods.
- The breeding season - when female crabs crawl ashore to lay their eggs - peaks during the full moon in May.
- Scientists have used a robotic crab to show that female fiddler crabs prefer males who can wave off the competition.
- Marshes also provide life-saving cover for female crabs that have shed their shells in preparation for mating.
- The male crabs are usually twice the size of the female crabs.
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