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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

The best of these is probably a glam-rock pastiche called “Shiny,” performed by Jemaine Clement in the guise of a greedy giant crab.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2016

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

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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