cancer borealis

1. 1.

   large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America

   SynonymsJonah crab

   Broadercrab

   Part ofCancer

Questions about cancer borealis

What does cancer borealis mean?

cancer borealis means "large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America".

What is another word for cancer borealis?

Close synonyms include Jonah 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 cancer borealis a common word?

cancer borealis 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.