King Crab

Definitions: King Crab

King Crab

Noun

1. Meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat.

2. Large European spider crab.

3. Large edible crab of North Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan.

4. Large marine arthropod of the American Atlantic coast having a domed horseshoe-shaped carapace and stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: King Crab

Crosswords: King Crab

King Crab (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Caribbean Fishermen Farmers: A Social Assessment of Smithsonian King Crab Mariculture (Research Report Series, Inst for Social Research) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Alaska King Crab Cowboys (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

King crab caught in trawl net in Chatham Strait. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Crab pots used in the North Pacific king crab fishery. Credit: Fisheries.

Entrance to crab pot used in North Pacific king crab fishery. Credit: Fisheries.

Beginning of the Alaska King Crab fishery. Meat from one crab is sufficient to fill several cans. Scientists of the Fish and Wildlife Service, a forerunner of today's NMFS, showed where to catch crabs and helped develop satisfactory canning methods. King crab being shown by Captain Trafton on the ship DOROTHY. F&W - 12,476. Credit: Fisheries.

King crab caught on MILLER FREEMAN. Average weight 6-8 pounds of which about 25 per cent is edible. The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was instrumental in helping develop the King Crab industry. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

King Crab. Credit: Alaska Image Library.

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Economic History

Japan

Exports of U.S. species which notably increased to Japan from 1999 to 2000 are chilled skipjack ($190,000, up 100 times), frozen sardine ($8.0 million, up 2.7 times), frozen cod roe ($302 million, up 73 percent), other frozen fish roe ($12.5 million, up 69 percent), frozen herring ($955,000, up 78 percent), salted herring roe ($7.3 million, up 45 percent), frozen king crab ($59.6 million, up 38 percent), live spiny lobster ($413,000, up 4.72 times), live king crab ($241,000, up 2.52 times), live abalone ($2.5 million, up 2.38 times), other prepared fish ($993,000, up 5.19 times), ikura salmon eggs ($116 million, up 80 percent), caviar and caviar substitute ($1.6 million, up 217 times), and worked cultured pearls ($700,000, up 4.64 times). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "king crab": Alaska king crab ♦ alaskan king crab. Additional references.

Albanian

emër mërimange detare. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملك السراطين حيوان بحري. (various references)

Bulgarian 

голямо раковидно. (various references)

Chinese 

鱟 . (various references)

Danish

Kamtjatka-krabbe (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab), Japan-krabbe (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab). (various references)

Dutch

koningskrab (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab), Kamsjatkakrab (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab), Kamsjatka krab (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab). (various references)

Finnish

kuningasrapu (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab). (various references)

French

crabe royal du Kamchatka, crabe royal. (various references)

German

Kamschatka-Krabbe (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab). (various references)

Greek 

βασιλικός κάβουρας (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab, Murray king crab, Subantarctic stone crab), βασιλικό καβούρι (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab, Murray king crab, Subantarctic stone crab). (various references)

Hungarian

kardfarkú tarisznyarák. (various references)

Italian

granchio reale (alaska deep sea crab, Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab, Murray king crab, Subantarctic stone crab), grancevola del kamciatka (alaska deep sea crab, japanese crab), grancevola del Camciatca (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鱈� �蟹 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たらばがに. (various references)

Pig Latin

ingkay abcray

Portuguese

límulo (horseshoe crab), chefiar (captain, direct, head, lead), caranguejo real (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab). (various references)

Russian 

краб камчатский (king-crab). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kraljevska kraba. (various references)

Spanish

cangrejo japonés (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab). (various references)

Swedish

japansk trollkrabba (Alaska deepsea crab, Japanese crab). (various references)

Paralithodes camtschatica, Paralithodes camtschatica (Tilesius). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arcking, backing, barking, bracing, braking, carking, racking.

-2 letters: arcing, baking, baring, caking, caring, racing, raking.

-3 letters: acing, bairn, baric, brain, brank, brick, bring, brink, cabin, cairn, cigar, crank, garni, grain, kiang, naric, rabic.

-4 letters: abri, agin, airn, akin, back, bang, bani, bank, bark, barn, birk, brag, bran, brig, brin, cain, carb, cark, carn, crab.

+2 letters: backfiring, barracking, bracketing, buckraming.

+3 letters: bricklaying, parbuckling.

+4 letters: backbreaking, backcrossing, backdropping, backtracking, benchmarking, blackbirding, bricklayings, greenbackism, roadblocking.

+5 letters: backgrounding, benchmarkings, blackguarding, greenbackisms.

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