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piattola — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • crab noun A sea creature with a hard shell, pincers, and a sideways walk.

Senses

piattola is used for these senses in English:

  • body louse A parasitic insect, Pediculus humanus humanus (syn. Pediculus humanus corporis), that infests the body and clothes of humans and feeds on blood.
  • crab (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
  • crab louse A parasitic insect, Pthirus pubis, that lives amongst the pubic hairs of humans and feeds on blood.

crab — full definition

  1. noun A sea creature with a hard shell, pincers, and a sideways walk.
  2. verb To complain or grumble.
  3. verb To move sideways or drift off course, as an aircraft does against crosswind.

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