cangrejal

English translation: crab bed

07:16 Oct 16, 2018
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Environment & Ecology / Flora de Uruguay
Spanish term or phrase: cangrejal
Vegetación costera, bañados, humedales de Uruguay
Suani Vera Camacho
Local time: 01:50
English translation:crab bed
Explanation:
Not only do crabs sleep here… :)

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Note added at 1 hr (2018-10-16 08:40:21 GMT)
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OXFORD Dic.
Bed: 2.1 A place on the seabed where shellfish, especially oysters or mussels, breed or are bred.
‘the Firth of Forth was once home to vast beds of oysters’

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Note added at 3 hrs (2018-10-16 10:22:24 GMT)
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Issues in Environment, Health, and Pollution: 2011 Edition
https://books.google.es/books?isbn=146496436X
2012 - ‎Technology & Engineering
“Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) priority PAHs in sediment and pore water from a crab bed (including surface and burrow samples) ...
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 06:50
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cangrejal
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crab bed


Explanation:
Not only do crabs sleep here… :)

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Note added at 1 hr (2018-10-16 08:40:21 GMT)
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OXFORD Dic.
Bed: 2.1 A place on the seabed where shellfish, especially oysters or mussels, breed or are bred.
‘the Firth of Forth was once home to vast beds of oysters’

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Note added at 3 hrs (2018-10-16 10:22:24 GMT)
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Issues in Environment, Health, and Pollution: 2011 Edition
https://books.google.es/books?isbn=146496436X
2012 - ‎Technology & Engineering
“Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) priority PAHs in sediment and pore water from a crab bed (including surface and burrow samples) ...

Example sentence(s):
  • Sediment grain size distribution from a crab bed...
  • What to look for on the beach to locate a sand crab bed...

    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sediment-grain-size-distribution-from-a-crab-bed-INSIDE-and-a-nearby-area-without-crabs_fig5_236165960
    https://sdfish.com/articles/surf-articles/how-to-find-sandcrabs-for-surf-fishing/
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 06:50
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Reference comments


35 mins peer agreement (net): +2
Reference: cangrejal

Reference information:
cangrejal
s. m. Argent., Urug. GEOGRAFÍA Terreno pantanoso e intransitable por la abundancia de cangrejillos negruzcos.

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Note added at 36 minutos (2018-10-16 07:53:12 GMT)
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You may need to keep the name in Spanish. You already have the definition of it anyway.

Lisa McCarthy
Spain
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  philgoddard: This appears to be an ecosystem rather than a plant as in the asker's other questions. Assuming that's the case, I'd definitely leave it in Spanish.
3 hrs
agree  neilmac: No need to leave it in Spanish. If crabs breed/live there, it's a crab bed.
23 hrs
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