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SEA CRAWFISH
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
Synonyms:
crawfish; crayfish; langouste; rock lobster; sea crawfish; spiny lobster
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea crawfish" is a kind of...):
lobster (any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae)
Meronyms (parts of "sea crawfish"):
crayfish; langouste; rock lobster; spiny lobster (warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California)
Holonyms ("sea crawfish" is a member of...):
genus Palinurus; Palinurus (type genus of the family Palinuridae)
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