Crabs are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, composed primarily of highly mineralized chitin, and armed with a single pair of chelae (claws). Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans, while many crabs live in fresh water and on land, particularly in tropical regions. Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, a few millimetres wide, to the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span of up to 4 metres (13 ft). About 850 species of crab are freshwater, terrestrial or semi-terrestrial species; they are found throughout the world's tropical and semi-tropical regions.
Quick Answer. A pluot is a hybrid fruit created by cross-breeding a plum and an apricot. Pluots do not occur in nature and were first created in the late 20th century.
Basso continuo (also thoroughbass, figured bass, basse cifree (CifrÃ©e.), fr (Generalbass.) ger or) continuo is the practice of (creating called realizing by) specialists an accompaniment from a composed bass part by playing the bass notes and improvising harmony above. themomposers often wrote numbers (figures, hence figured bass) on the bass part to indicate the harmony, but the rules of continuo realization are firm enough that skilled players can play from an unfigured bass part. Continuo was standard practice in art music from roughly 1600 to the later 1700s.