spider crab

English

Noun

spider crab (plural spider crabs)

1. Any of various species of crab of the superfamily Majoidea with long legs
   1. especially, the true spider crabs (family Majidae).

Derived terms

• European spider crab (Maja squinado)
• great spider crab (Hyas araneus)
• Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi)
• portly spider crab (Libinia emarginata)

Translations

crab

• Asturian: centollu (ast) m, centolla (ast) f
• Bulgarian: морски паяк m (morski pajak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜘蛛蟹 (zhīzhūxiè)

• Finnish: hämähäkkirapu
• Galician: centola (gl) f
• Irish: portán faoilinne m, portán iarainn m, crúbach m, portán crúbach m
• Italian: grancevola f
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼosh ntsxaaígíí
• Norman: pihangne f, hueûlîn m
• Portuguese: santola (pt) f
• Russian: морско́й пау́к m (morskój paúk)
• Spanish: cangrejo araña m
• Welsh: cranc heglog m, cranc hirgoes m, copyn-granc m, corryn-granc m, Wili wyllt m (NW dialect), wìl wyllt m, cranc heglog pigog m (spiny spider crab)

See also

• sea spider

Anagrams

• crab spider, crabspider, crisp bread, crispbread, præscrib'd