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giant crab

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noun

  1. a large, deep-water Japanese spider crab, Macrocheira kaempferi, sometimes measuring 11 feet (3.4 meters) across from claw to claw.


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Jones would be there, too - eating the meat from a giant crab leg and aiming a cheery thumbs-up to the camera to promote Japan's tourist board.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2022

As you’d expect, local cuisine relies on seafood, including a giant crab that cracks coconuts as if they were hazelnuts.

From The Guardian Feb. 16, 2016

But he was interrupted when he was bitten by a giant crab and turned and went home, leaving the bridge unfinished.

From Washington Times Nov. 15, 2014

In the pool, the eight swimmers imitated dolphins leaping, giant crab pincers and fluid waves, wowing the crowd with some of the most daring lifts and leaps of the competition.

From Reuters Aug. 10, 2012

Like some giant crab, all spines and legs, but larger than a castle.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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