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lobster claw

lobster claw noun: any tropical flowering plant of the genus Heliconia.

lobster claw: any tropical flowering plant of the genus Heliconia
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Noun

lobster claw (plural lobster claws)

  1. Any tropical flowering plant of the genus Heliconia.
    Synonyms:
    toucan beak, wild plantain, false bird-of-paradise
  2. A kakabeak, any member of the two species of genus Clianthus.
    Synonyms:
    parrot's beak, parrot's bill, glory pea
  3. Ectrodactyly marked by one or more missing or underdeveloped middle digits with cleaving of the hand or foot into two segments and syndactyly of the remaining digits.

Synonyms of lobster claw

All synonyms of lobster claw

Forms of lobster claw

plurallobster claws

Words formed from lobster claw

  • hanging lobster claw

Questions about lobster claw

What does lobster claw mean?
Lobster claw means any tropical flowering plant of the genus Heliconia.
What part of speech is lobster claw?
Lobster claw is a noun.
What is the plural of lobster claw?
The plural of lobster claw is lobster claws.

Words near lobster claw in the dictionary

  1. Lobstein syndrome
  2. lobster
  3. lobster box
  4. lobster boxes
  5. lobster caterpillar
  6. lobster claw
  7. lobster moth
  8. lobster moths
  9. lobster Newberg
  10. lobster Newburg
  11. lobster Newburgh

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