Associations to the word «Portunus»

Wiktionary

PORTUNUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Portunidae   — certain swimming crabs.

Dictionary definition

PORTUNUS, noun. Type genus of the family Portunidae.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope