spiny lobster

Questions about spiny lobster

What is another word for spiny lobster?

It depends which spiny lobster you mean. In the sense “warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California”, the synonyms are langouste, rock lobster, crayfish. Across all 2 senses there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of spiny lobster?

WordNet records no antonym for spiny lobster. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for spiny lobster split into groups?

Because spiny lobster carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for spiny lobster come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of spiny lobster

• Full entry for spiny lobsterAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for spiny lobsterWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.