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Palinurus

noun

type genus of the family Palinuridae

• Syn: ↑genus Palinurus

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Palinuridae, ↑family Palinuridae

• Member Meronyms: ↑spiny lobster, ↑langouste, ↑rock lobster, ↑crawfish, ↑crayfish, ↑sea crawfish

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\\-rəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, name of Aeneas's pilot, understood as from Greek palin back + -ouros -urus

: the type genus of Palinuridae comprising the European langouste and other Old World spiny lobsters — compare panulirus

Useful english dictionary. 2012.