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Meaning of "king crab" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF KING CRAB

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KING CRAB

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King crab is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KING CRAB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

king crab

King crab

King crabs, also called stone crabs, are a superfamily of crab-like decapod crustaceans chiefly found in cold seas. Because of their large size and the taste of their meat, many species are widely caught and sold as food, the most common being the red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus. King crabs are generally thought to be derived from hermit crab-like ancestors, which may explain the asymmetry still found in the adult forms. Although some doubt still exists about this theory, king crabs are the most widely quoted example of carcinisation among the Decapoda. The evidence for this explanation comes from the asymmetry of the king crab's abdomen, which is thought to reflect the asymmetry of hermit crabs which is located in the west cost, which must fit into a spiral shell. Although formerly classified among the hermit crabs in the superfamily Paguroidea, king crabs are now placed in a separate superfamily, Lithodoidea.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE KING CRAB

Boston crab
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hermit crab
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sand crab
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Synonyms and antonyms of king crab in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «king crab» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of king crab to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of king crab from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «king crab» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

帝王蟹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cangrejo real
570 millions of speakers

English

king crab
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

केकड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الملك السلطعون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Камчатский краб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caranguejo de rei
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাজা কাঁকড়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crabe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepiting raja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Königskrabbe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

タラバガニ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

왕게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

King crab
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cua loại lớn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ராஜா நண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

राजा केकड़े
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kral Yengeç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

granchio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

krab królewski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Камчатський краб
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rege crab
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

king crab
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koning krap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kungskrabba
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kongekrabbe
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about king crab

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2 QUOTES WITH «KING CRAB»

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Travie McCoy
A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.
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Harland Williams
I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KING CRAB»

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Anatomy of the King Crab (Limulus Polyphemus, Latr.)
This action may be supposed to take place when the King-crab is moving or resting in its atmosphere of seawater. The muscles which approximate the branchigerous plates and press them against each other and the thoracetron, will close the ...
Richard Owen, 1873
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Crazy for Crab: Every Thing You Need to Know to Enjoy ...
Crabs. If you have eaten at a seafood buffet, you are familiar with these two critters. Alaskan king crab is a broad term applied to all king crab species. The red king crab (Paralithodes camtschatica) is the most common and abundant, but there ...
Fred Thompson, 2010
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King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management
Virtually all North American king crab landings come from Alaskan waters, and I have ignored miniscule landings elsewhere. King crabs were commercially landed in Alaskan waters beginning in 1920 (Anonymous 1954). The fishery was  ...
Bradley G. Stevens, 2014
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RUSSIA'S FAR EAST (p)
The other major RFE seafood product contributing to export sales, and the one most associated with problems of unrecorded shipments, illegal fishing, and underreported foreign-source revenues, is king crab. Prior to 1990, only a few RFE ...
Thornton
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The Bering Sea Ecosystem
Hayes (1983) concluded that interannual variations in abundance of the exploitable portion of king crab stocks have ranged over an order of magnitude in both the eastern Bering Sea and Kodiak. These fluctuations result from the occurrence ...
Committee on the Bering Sea Ecosystem, National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, 1996
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Fishing with Traps and Pots
King crab traps. These are illustrated in Figure 48. Deep-water fishery for king crab in the northeastern Pacific and the eastern Bering Sea is carried out with large pots constructed from galvanized steel with frames of 213.3 x 213.3 x 91.4 cm.
R. J. Slack-Smith, 2001
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Marine and Freshwater Products Handbook
Fish. Res. Board Can. 18 (5):873-889. Butler, T.H. and J.F.L. Hart. 1962. The occurrence of the king crab, Paralithodes camtschatica (Tilesius), and of Lithodes aeqitispina (Benedict) in British Columbia. /. Fish. Res. Board Can. 19(3):401-408 .
Roy E. Martin, Emily Paine Carter, George J. Flick, Jr., 2000
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JOC All New Rev. - 1997
King Crab: The huge crab of Alaska, its body contains little meat, and it is too big ( up to 20 pounds) to ship live. Usually the legs and claws are cooked separately, then split, frozen, and shipped. This makes them perfect for a very quick meal; ...
Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, 1997
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Proceedings of the North Pacific Symposium on Invertebrate ...
source of error in estimating the abundance of these king crab stocks. Considering the most likely magnitudes of all the potential sources of error, we conclude that the biases will in most cases be acceptable (<5%) and in many cases ...
G. S. Jamieson, Alan Campbell, 1998
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New York Magazine
Next time prices at your neighborhood restaurant double and the owner pleads inflation, tell him to go to King Crab (871 Eighth Avenue, at 52nd Street; 765- 4393). A lobster dinner in this pleasant restaurant on the fringe of the topless belt is an ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KING CRAB»

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$10 Crab Legs!
And, for just $10 more, you can add some king crab legs to your All-You-Can-Eat Feast! For the wee ones, a $7.00 children's menu is available, ... «Cape Gazette, Jul 15»
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Weekly Feed: Thai Tofu Twice Fried Edition: DCist
... at Joe's weekend brunch to help wash down dishes like colossal lump crab cake benedict and poached eggs Oscar with Alaskan king crab. «DCist.com, Jul 15»
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Cuttlefish Ocean Kitchen is out, The Hash Kitchen is in
Premium toppings, such as spring rolls, King crab and bacon cheeseburger sliders, are $4 each or $6 for two. A straightforward Bloody Mary ... «azcentral.com, Jul 15»
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Vacationers help feed locals | StarNewsOnline.com
“We get steaks, Alaska king crab legs, we get the good stuff. The other day we got a leg of lamb,” said Bill Spier, a vacationer himself (he and ... «StarNewsOnline.com, Jul 15»
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Joseph F. Doyle: The Earth is speaking - Salem News: Opinion
Or consider oysters off the coast of Washington state, king crab off the coast of Alaska, or anywhere in the world's ocean where shelled ... «The Salem News, Jul 15»
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ADF&G sets quota for Aleutian Islands golden king crab fishery
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced the total allowable catch for the 2015-16 Aleutian Islands golden king crab ... «IntraFish.com, Jul 15»
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Taco No. 35: Did you know IBT's had a restaurant?
... and staffed by bartenders from the IBT's gay bar right there, and it serves everything from BLT sandwiches with king crab to carne asada fries. «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»
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Star chef Rick Moonen: Healthy, safe, sufficient food and respecting …
The menu included local oysters with caviar, brandade of merluzo on a truffle foam and shaved fennel, Alaskan king crab chowder, everything ... «Las Vegas Sun, Jul 15»
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Back to the good times as Patrick Guilbaud enjoys best ever year
Mr Robin said that some of the restaurant's most popular dishes include 'Red King Crab and Cucumber Maki', 'Blue Lobster Ravioli Free ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
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Prison diary: The commercial's right, we are richer than we think
I was also a culprit, a serial worrier and amasser, used to spend thousands on Alaskan king crab and Kobe beef, 500-plus horsepower vehicles ... «The Kingston Whig-Standard, Jul 15»

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