macrocheira kaempferi

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   very large deep-water Japanese crab

   Synonymsgiant crab

   Broaderspider crab

   Part ofMacrocheira

Questions about macrocheira kaempferi

What does macrocheira kaempferi mean?

macrocheira kaempferi means "very large deep-water Japanese crab".

What is another word for macrocheira kaempferi?

Close synonyms include giant 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 macrocheira kaempferi a common word?

macrocheira kaempferi 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.