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Spiny Lobster

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Noun

1. 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

2. 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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spiny Lobster

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noun
any of various large edible marine decapod crustaceans of the genus Palinurus and related genera, having a very tough spiny carapace
. Also called: rock lobster, crawfish, langouste

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Spiny Lobster

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any of a family (Palinuridae) of lobsters lacking large pincers and having a spiny shell

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Spiny Lobster

see synonyms of spiny lobster
n.
Any of various edible marine decapod crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, having a spiny carapace and long antennae and lacking claws. Also called crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crayfish.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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