giant crab

giant crab
noun
very large deep-water Japanese crab
Hypernyms: ↑spider crab
Member Holonyms: ↑Macrocheira, ↑genus Macrocheira

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noun
1. : a Japanese deep-sea edible spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) that measures about a foot across the shell and has legs many feet in length
2. : an immense Australian edible sea crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) that attains a weight of 30 pounds and has the large claw 17 inches in length

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a large, deep-water Japanese spider crab, Macrocheira kaempferi, sometimes measuring 11 ft. (3.4 m) across from claw to claw.

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giant crab,
a spider crab of Japanese waters with extremely long legs; giant spider crab.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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