giant crab
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- noun
- /ˈdʒaɪənt kræb/
- The giant crab is known for its impressive size.
Examples
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The giant crab is famous for its impressive size and long lifespan.
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Fishermen caught a giant crab off the coast of Japan.
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The aquarium has a giant crab on display, astonishing visitors with its massive legs.
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Have you ever seen a giant crab?
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The giant crab is famous for its impressive leg span, making it one of the largest crabs in the world.
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When diving in Japan, we saw a giant crab with long legs scuttling across the ocean floor.
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At the aquarium, the exhibit featured a giant crab that fascinated all the visitors with its size.
Synonyms
A very large crab from Japan with very long legs that lives in the deep sea
How Big
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Morphology
The compound 'giant crab' is directly interpretable as 'a very large crab' by composing 'giant' (very large) with 'crab' (marine crustacean). This simple adjective+noun combination follows common cross-linguistic composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning even if they don't know the specific species name.
Etymology
Giant crab comes from the clear picture of a very large crab with very long legs, so it looks like a sea 'giant' or a spider. Because of that image, people used the name for the big deep-water species found near Japan, and today giant crab means that very large crab.