Cape crawfish

noun

variants or Cape crayfish

: the common spiny lobster (Jasus lalandii) of the coast of southern Africa valued as food and shipped canned or frozen to the U.S. see rock lobster

Word History

Etymology

from Cape of Good Hope

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