LONG-CLAWED PRAWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long-clawed prawn mean? 

• LONG-CLAWED PRAWN (noun)
  The noun LONG-CLAWED PRAWN has 1 sense:

1. large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers

  Familiarity information: LONG-CLAWED PRAWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG-CLAWED PRAWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

long-clawed prawn; Palaemon australis; river prawn

Hypernyms ("long-clawed prawn" is a kind of...):

prawn (shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible)

Meronyms (parts of "long-clawed prawn"):

river prawn (large Australian prawn)

Holonyms ("long-clawed prawn" is a member of...):

genus Palaemon; Palaemon (type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus)