king crab

English Thesaurus

1. large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod,
definition	:	invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus limulus, limulus,
definition	:	type genus of the family Limulidae (noun.animal)

2. large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	crab,
definition	:	decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	alaska crab, alaska king crab, alaskan king crab, king crab,
definition	:	meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus paralithodes, paralithodes,
definition	:	a genus of Lithodidae (noun.animal)

3. a large spider crab of Europe (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	spider crab,
definition	:	any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus maia, genus maja, maia, maja,
definition	:	type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution (noun.animal)

4. meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat (noun.food)

hypernym	:	crab, crabmeat,
definition	:	the edible flesh of any of various crabs (noun.food)

part meronym	:	alaska crab, alaska king crab, alaskan king crab, king crab, paralithodes camtschatica,
definition	:	large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan (noun.animal)

Visual ArtiKata

Explore king crab in ArtiKata.com >