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
- Studies of fouled arthropods include horseshoe crabs, isopods, stomatopods, lobsters, and true 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
- the horseshoe crab is not a true crab
- We were treated to black bears, river otters, sturgeon, horseshoe crabs, and stinkpot turtles.
- So I wrote to the author, complimenting him on the well-written article, and then challenging him on his statements about the antiquity of horseshoe crabs.
- Male horseshoe crabs have two mating tactics that are associated with phenotype.
- Little changed over the past 500 million years, the chambered nautilus is considered a ‘living fossil’, like the horseshoe crab and the coelacanth.
- Kids also enjoy the tide pool touch tank filled with sea stars, urchins, and horseshoe crabs.
- Eastern populations eat numerous horseshoe crabs during migration.
- Volunteers will also be planting milkweed, which monarchs need to reproduce, and trying to create spawning sanctuaries and ‘no-take’ reserves for horseshoe crabs.