alaskan king crab

1. 1.

   meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat

   SynonymsAlaska king crabking crabAlaska crab

   Broadercrab

   Part ofking crab
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsking crabAlaska crabAlaska king crabParalithodes camtschatica

   Broadercrab

   Part ofParalithodes

   PartsAlaska king crab

Questions about alaskan king crab

What does alaskan king crab mean?

alaskan king crab means "meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for alaskan king crab?

Close synonyms include Alaska king crab, king crab, Alaska crab, king crab, Alaska crab. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alaskan king crab a common word?

alaskan king crab is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.