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SPINY LOBSTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("spiny lobster" is a kind of...):
lobster (any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae)
Meronyms (parts of "spiny lobster"):
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 ("spiny lobster" is a member of...):
genus Palinurus; Palinurus (type genus of the family Palinuridae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
Synonyms:
crayfish; langouste; rock lobster; spiny lobster
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("spiny lobster" is a kind of...):
shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))
Holonyms ("spiny lobster" is a part of...):
crawfish; crayfish; langouste; rock lobster; sea crawfish; spiny lobster (large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters)
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