tanner crab

noun

: any of several spider crabs (genus Chionoecetes)

especially : snow crab

Examples of tanner crab in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But market dynamics have drastically devalued this year’s tanner crab catch, experts said. — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023

The collapse of two of three major crab stocks in Alaska — there’s a third, bairdi crab, also called tanner crab, which is doing fine, but is a much smaller industry — is more than a gastronomic inconvenience for the one-percenters. — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022

Word History

Etymology

probably from New Latin tanneri, specific epithet of Chionoecetes tanneri, from Zera L. Tanner †1906 American naval officer

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for tanner crab

• taxicab
• ab
• cab
• dab
• drab
• fab
• gab
• grab
• jab
• lab
• mab
• nab