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.

Exact synonyms: Crayfish, Langouste, Spiny Lobster
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.
Exact synonyms: Crawfish, Crayfish, Langouste, Sea Crawfish, Spiny Lobster
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

rock elm
rock face
rock faces
rock garden
rock geranium
rock group
rock groups
rock gunnel
rock harlequin
rock hind
rock hopper
rock hound
rock hyrax
rock kangaroo
rock lobster (current term)
rock maple
rock mechanics
rock music
rock oil
rock on
rock opera
rock out
rock out with one's cock out
rock outcrop
rock partridge
rock penstemon
rock pigeon
rock pigeons
rock pink

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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