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cancrine.

Of or pertaining to crabs.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈkæŋkɹaɪn/
  1. Of or pertaining to crabs.

    rare
  2. Palindromic; reading the same forwards or backwards.

  3. Of or pertaining to reading something backwards.

    broadly
Where this word comes from

From Latin cancer (“crab”) + -īnus, as if from *cancrīnus. The poetry sense comes from the fact that most species of crab can walk sideways, either left or right.

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