homard

Definitions of homard
  1. noun
    any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
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    types:
    écrevisse
    large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
    type of:
    décapodes
    crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
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