FAMILY HOMARIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Homaridae mean? 

• FAMILY HOMARIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY HOMARIDAE has 1 sense:

1. large-clawed lobsters

  Familiarity information: FAMILY HOMARIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY HOMARIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large-clawed lobsters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Homaridae; Homaridae

Hypernyms ("family Homaridae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Homaridae"):

true lobster (large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs)

genus Homarus; Homarus (type genus of the family Homaridae: common edible lobsters)

Holonyms ("family Homaridae" is a member of...):

Reptantia; suborder Reptantia (lobsters; crabs)