| rock lobster n. See spiny lobster. |
rock lobster
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for the spiny lobster
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| Noun | 1. |  rock lobster - warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and Californiasea 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 lobsterslobster - 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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