SPINY LOBSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spiny lobster mean? 

• SPINY LOBSTER (noun)
  The noun SPINY LOBSTER has 2 senses:

1. warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

2. large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

  Familiarity information: SPINY LOBSTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINY LOBSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

crayfish; langouste; rock lobster; spiny lobster

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

crawfish; crayfish; langouste; rock lobster; sea crawfish; spiny lobster

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)