spiny lobster

Questions about spiny lobster

What does spiny lobster mean?

spiny lobster means "warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for spiny lobster?

Close synonyms include langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, langouste, rock lobster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spiny lobster a common word?

spiny lobster is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.