crab shells
Discarded seafood armor
Crab shells are the hard outer coverings of crabs, left behind after the meat is extracted.
In cooking, they're often saved to make stock or bisque, lending a briny, concentrated seafood flavor.
Beachcombers find them washed ashore, sometimes intact, sometimes in fragments.
The term also applies to the molted exoskeletons crabs shed as they grow.
- carapaceProtective dorsal exoskeleton
- exoskeletonExternal skeletal structure
- chitinArthropod shell polymer
- clawsAnimal gripping nails
- crustaceanAquatic arthropod with exoskeleton
molting · beach · beach combing · tide · tide pool · seafood · brittle · cracking · ocean · armor · pincers · hermit · calcified · debris · seagulls · sand · hollow · remnants
- seafood wastefish heads, fish guts, fish scales, fish tails
- beach findssand, driftwood, pebbles, coral, seaweed
- byproductsbagasse, pomace, molasses, sawdust, bran
- fishing wastefish guts, fish heads, fish scales, entrails, viscera
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils
- shellsclam, oyster, mussel, scallop, cockle