Definition of Homaridae

1. Noun. Large-clawed lobsters.

Exact synonyms: Family Homaridae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Reptantia, Suborder Reptantia
Member holonyms: True Lobster, Genus Homarus, Homarus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Homaridae

Holy Trinity
Holy War Warriors
Holy Wednesday
Holy Week
Holy Writ
Holy Year
Holy of Holies
Holyhead
Holynesses
Holyrood
Holzknecht
Holzknecht unit
Homalomyia
Homans
Homans' sign
Homaridae (current term)
Homarus americanus
Homarus capensis
Homarus vulgaris
Homberg
Homberg's phosphorus
Homburg
Homburg hat
Homburg hats
Home
Home's lobe
Home Counties
Home Depot
Home Information Pack
Home Information Packs

Literary usage of Homaridae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"... stock might become extinct, or might be represented only by rare deep-water forms, as the Homaridae are represented in the Indian Ocean only by ..."

2. A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1893)
"Spence Bate calls it the Homaridae, from Homarus, the name which Milne-Edwards gave to the genus containing the common lobster, but since that genus was ..."

3. A Handbook of English Composition by James Morgan Hart (1895)
"... all the species of lobster in the world we sum up in the genus Lobster; the genus lobster and the genus crayfish we sum up in the family Homaridae; ..."

4. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1919)
"Family Homaridae. NEPHROPS COSTATUS, new species. Plate 57, flgs. 13-17. Type-locality.—Panama Canal Zone. From near Mount Hope in ditch through swampy ..."

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