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TRUE LOBSTER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("true lobster" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "true lobster"):

lobster (flesh of a lobster)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "true lobster"):

American lobster; Homarus americanus; Maine lobster; Northern lobster (lobster of Atlantic coast of America)

European lobster; Homarus vulgaris (lobster of Atlantic coast of Europe)

Cape lobster; Homarus capensis (small lobster of southern Africa)

Holonyms ("true lobster" is a member of...):

family Homaridae; Homaridae (large-clawed lobsters)

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