noun
large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
• Syn: ↑spiny lobster, ↑langouste, ↑rock lobster, ↑crawfish, ↑crayfish
• Hypernyms: ↑lobster
• Member Holonyms: ↑Palinurus, ↑genus Palinurus
• Part Meronyms: ↑spiny lobster, ↑langouste, ↑rock lobster, ↑crayfish
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noun or sea crayfish* * *
sea crayfish or sea crawfish,
= spiny lobster. (Cf. ↑spiny lobster)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.