arthropod vs king crab

king crab vs arthropod

arthropod and king crab both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
arthropod	Yes	No	No	No
king crab	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, king crab is a hyponym of arthropod; that is, king crab is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than arthropod:

arthropod: invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
king crab: large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse

Other hyponyms of arthropod include trilobite, arachnid, arachnoid, myriapod, garden centipede, garden symphilid, Scutigerella immaculata, symphilid, tardigrade, centipede, millepede, milliped, millipede, pycnogonid, sea spider, class Merostomata, Merostomata, horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, Xiphosurus polyphemus, Asian horseshoe crab, eurypterid, pentastomid, tongue worm, crustacean, onychophoran, peripatus, velvet worm, insect, instar.

arthropod (noun)	king crab (noun)
invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin	large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan
	large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse
	a large spider crab of Europe
	meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat

Difference between arthropod and king crab

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