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Word: Partan
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English; earliest use found in Ayr Burgh Accounts. From Scottish Gaelic partan; further etymology uncertain; perhaps related to Early Irish partaing the colour red, red object (Irish †partaing; probably from post-classical Latin Parthica (in Parthica pellis red Parthian leather or fleece from classical Latin Parthica, feminine of Parthicus Parthian (from Parthia + -icus) + pellis))
A crab, especially the edible crab, Cancer pagurus.
The common shore crab, Carcinus maenas.
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