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rock lobster

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rock lobster
n.
See spiny lobster.
rock lobster
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for the spiny lobster
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Noun1.rock lobster - warm-water lobsters without clawsrock lobster - warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
crayfish, langouste, spiny lobster
sea crawfish, spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
shellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
2.rock lobster - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobstersrock lobster - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
sea crawfish, spiny lobster, langouste, crawfish, crayfish
lobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
genus Palinurus, Palinurus - type genus of the family Palinuridae
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
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