dungeness crab

Questions about dungeness crab

What does dungeness crab mean?

dungeness crab means "flesh of Cancer magister (Dungeness crab)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for dungeness crab?

Close synonyms include Cancer magister. 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 dungeness crab a common word?

dungeness 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.