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Definition of Homaridae
1. Noun. Large-clawed lobsters.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Reptantia, Suborder Reptantia
Member holonyms: True Lobster, Genus Homarus, Homarus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homaridae
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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