cancer magister

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   small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America

   SynonymsDungeness crab

   Broadercrab

   Part ofCancer

   PartsDungeness crab

Questions about cancer magister

What does cancer magister mean?

cancer magister means "small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America".

What is another word for cancer magister?

Close synonyms include Dungeness 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 magister a common word?

cancer magister 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.