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king crab   (TTS Sound)

The noun king crab has 4 senses

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


• European spider crab, king crab, Maja squinado -- (a large spider crab of Europe)


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


• 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)