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Giant crab   /dʒˈaɪənt kræb/   Listen
Giant crab

noun
1.
Very large deep-water Japanese crab.  Synonym: Macrocheira kaempferi.






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"Giant crab" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mildred's, so that he could help her if she slipped. I was below the girl. We were halfway up the rock when suddenly a glare of red light shone upon me, casting my shadow sharply on the cliff. I looked up and saw the broad, intensely red beam of a heat-ray like that we had seen the giant crab use. ...
— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various

... didn't you girls stop me sooner—call to me to go round the other way? I was in a hurry and didn't see or hear you up there." Then she sat down on the crust beside Betty. "Forgive me for laughing," she said, "but you did look so exactly like a giant crab sidling along on that ridiculous dust-pan. Have you sprained your wrist? Then you must come straight over to my room and wait for ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton



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