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SEA CRAWFISH

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea crawfish" is a kind of...):

lobster (any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae)

Meronyms (parts of "sea crawfish"):

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 ("sea crawfish" is a member of...):

genus Palinurus; Palinurus (type genus of the family Palinuridae)

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