soft shell crab

基本解释

Continuing the theme of found food, a soft-shell crab is presented as an edible beach treasure, surrounded by amaranth grains for sand and brown-butter sauce for seawater.
NEWYORKER: Atera
Soft-shell crab with a hazelnut salad, fried oysters with a green-chile-buttermilk dressing, a gin-and-tonic salmon with a subtle juniper aroma: these were creative combinations not often seen on New York menus.
NEWYORKER: Bell Book & Candle
He hits the quintessential barbecue dishes, pork ribs and beef brisket, but also planked camembert cheese, soft-shell crab sliders, bacon wrapped prunes stuffed with gouda, porchetta, Thai chicken skewers, Korean beef tacos, lobster, shrimp, oysters, Cambodian style chicken, Argentinean, Brazilian and Peruvian dishes, even grilled Angel food cake.
FORBES: Barbecue University Part 2: Three Delicious Days Of Grilling

a crab, esp of the edible species Cancer pagurus, that has recently moulted and has not yet formed its new shell &rarrcomparehard-shell crab