English Explanatory Dictionary

cancrine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to crabs.
  2. Palindromic; reading the same forwards or backwards.
  3. Of or pertaining to reading something backwards.

Pronunciation

/ˈkæŋkɹaɪn/

Word forms

cancrine more cancrine most cancrine

Etymology

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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