Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spiny_lobster
2 senses of spiny lobster
Sense 1
spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish -- (warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California)
=> shellfish -- (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))
Sense 2
spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish -- (large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters)
=> lobster -- (any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae)