Alaska crab
- noun
- /əˈlæskə kræb/
- US
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carne de cangrejo de Alaska
- The restaurant serves fresh Alaska crab with melted butter as a specialty.
Examples
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She ordered a salad topped with tender pieces of Alaska crab.
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Harvesting Alaska crab is vital to the region's fishing industry.
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I love Alaska crab!
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Have you ever tried Alaska crab?
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The restaurant serves fresh Alaska crab with melted butter as a specialty.
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She ordered a salad topped with tender pieces of Alaska crab.
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Harvesting Alaska crab is vital to the region's fishing industry.
Synonyms
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1.0
The meat from a sea animal that people eat
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1.4
Legs of a crab often served as food, like king or snow crabs
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Parts of a crab that people eat
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Meat from the legs of a large cold water crab that people eat as a delicacy
The sweet meat from the legs of a very large crab that lives in cold northern seas near Alaska
Meat from the legs of a large crab that lives in cold northern waters, usually sweet and tender
A very large crab that people eat from the northern Pacific, called the red king crab
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is a straightforward composition of a place name + noun: 'Alaska' indicates origin/region and 'crab' names the animal/seafood, so the phrase denotes crabs from Alaska or their meat. This place-modifier + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be easily inferred by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Alaska crab can also mean the tasty meat from the long legs of those crabs. Imagine pulling up a cluster of long legs full of white, tender meat—so the name also refers to the 'edible meat' valued as a 'delicacy'.