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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2 words match “LEUCOSOID”

LEUCOSOID a.
Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa.
NUT n.
ve coal and larger than pea coal; -- called also chestnut coal. -- Nut crab (Zoöl.), any leucosoid crab of the genus Ebalia as, Ebalia tuberosa of Europe. -- Nut grass (Bot.), a plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant mul…