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King Crab

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Noun

1. alaska crab, alaska king crab, alaskan king crab, king crab

meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat

2. european spider crab, king crab, maja squinado

a large spider crab of Europe

3. 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

4. horseshoe crab, king crab, limulus polyphemus, xiphosurus polyphemus

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

King Crab

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noun
another name for the horseshoe crab

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King Crab

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1. 
a very large, edible spider crab (Paralithodes camtschatica) of the N Pacific
2. 
horseshoe crab

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

King Crab

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n.
1. Any of three species of large crab, the red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus), the blue king crab (P. platypus), and the golden king crab (Lithodes aequispinus), native to the North Pacific from the Gulf of Alaska to the Sea of Japan and valued commercially for their edible flesh. Also called Alaskan king crab.
2. See horseshoe crab.

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