sea crawfish

sea crayfish

also sea crawfishn. See spiny lobster.

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sea crawfish - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsterslangouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster, crawfish, crayfishlobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridaegenus Palinurus, Palinurus - type genus of the family Palinuridaecrayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster - warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California