KING CRAB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does king crab mean? 

• KING CRAB (noun)
  The noun KING CRAB has 4 senses:

1. meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat

2. a large spider crab of Europe

3. large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan

4. large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse

  Familiarity information: KING CRAB used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KING CRAB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Alaska crab; Alaska king crab; Alaskan king crab; king crab

Hypernyms ("king crab" is a kind of...):

crab; crabmeat (the edible flesh of any of various crabs)

Holonyms ("king crab" is a part of...):

Alaska crab; Alaska king crab; Alaskan king crab; king crab; Paralithodes camtschatica (large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large spider crab of Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

European spider crab; king crab; Maja squinado

Hypernyms ("king crab" is a kind of...):

spider crab (any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies)

Holonyms ("king crab" is a member of...):

genus Maia; genus Maja; Maia; Maja (type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Alaska crab; Alaska king crab; Alaskan king crab; king crab; Paralithodes camtschatica

Hypernyms ("king crab" is a kind of...):

crab (decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers)

Meronyms (parts of "king crab"):

Alaska crab; Alaska king crab; Alaskan king crab; king crab (meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat)

Holonyms ("king crab" is a member of...):

genus Paralithodes; Paralithodes (a genus of Lithodidae)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

horseshoe crab; king crab; Limulus polyphemus; Xiphosurus polyphemus

Hypernyms ("king crab" is a kind of...):

arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)

Holonyms ("king crab" is a member of...):

genus Limulus; Limulus (type genus of the family Limulidae)