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

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

3. a large spider crab of Europe

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

1. : any of several closely related large marine arthropods of eastern No. America and eastern Asia constituting the only surviving members of the order Xiphosura and class Merostomata and having a broad crescentic cephalothorax with a pair of large compound eyes and two simple eyes on the upper surface and six pairs of legs arising from the lower surface about the centrally placed mouth, a small abdomen articulated to the cephalothorax with its segments fused into a single piece, swimming appendages to which the flat leaflike gills are attached, and a long stiff movably articulated caudal spine; especially : an arthropod (Limulus polyphemus syn. Xiphosurus polyphemus) found on sandy and muddy bottoms on the coasts of No. America from Maine to Mexico and the West Indies that attains a length of nearly two feet — called also horseshoe crab

2.

a. : a large European spider crab (Maia squinado)

b. : a large scarlet anomuran crab (Lopholithodes mandtii) of shallow water from California to Alaska

c. : the largest of the edible crabs (Paralithodes camtschaticus) often measuring five feet from claw tip to claw tip, weighing up to 15 pounds, and widely distributed in the No. Pacific

1. See horseshoe crab.

2. Also called Alaskan king crab, Alaska crab. a large, edible crab, Paralithodes camtschatica, of cold North Pacific waters, esp. abundant along the coasts of Alaska and Japan.

[1690-1700]

king crab noun

1. Any of several large decapods valued as a food (also stone crab)

2. Same as ↑horseshoe crab (see under ↑horse)

Main Entry: ↑king

king crab,

1. = horseshoe crab. (Cf. ↑horseshoe crab)

2. a large true crab found along the shores of the northern Pacific; Alaskan king crab; Japanese crab. King crabs have extremely long legs and are sold for their meat.

1) an edible crab of the North Pacific, resembling a spider crab. ● Genus Paralithodes, family Lithodidae

2) another term for horseshoe crab

noun, pl ⋯ crabs [count]

: a very large type of crab