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Definition of Rock lobster
1. Noun. Warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California.
Group relationships: Crawfish, Crayfish, Langouste, Sea Crawfish, Spiny Lobster
Generic synonyms: Shellfish
2. Noun. Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.
Generic synonyms: Lobster
Group relationships: Genus Palinurus, Palinurus
Terms within: Crayfish, Langouste, Spiny Lobster
Definition of Rock lobster
1. Noun. a crustacean of the family ''Palinuridae'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Lobster
Literary usage of Rock lobster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"(7) Southern Rock-Lobster or Melbourne Cray-fish. ... I suggest the trivial name
of Southern rock lobster for this species, which abounds in Victoria, ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"159: (7) Southern Rock-Lobster or Melbourne Cray-fish. ... I suggest the trivial
name of Southern rock lobster for this species, which abounds in Victoria, ..."
3. The Fisheries of the Adriatic and the Fish Thereof: A Report of the Austro by G. L. Faber (1883)
"2000; these figures include the ROCK-LOBSTER, Palinurus vulgaris (Languste),
which is caught in Dalmatia from May to August, especially off the islands of ..."
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