Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun king_crab

4 senses of king crab

Sense 1
Alaska king crab, Alaskan king crab, king crab, Alaska crab -- (meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat)
       => crab, crabmeat -- (the edible flesh of any of various crabs)

Sense 2
European spider crab, king crab, Maja squinado -- (a large spider crab of Europe)
       => spider crab -- (any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies)

Sense 3
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)
       => crab -- (decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers)

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