lobster

DEFINITIONS OF: lobster

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; true lobster
large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs; Nephrops norvegicus, Norway lobster
edible European lobster resembling the American lobster but slenderer; crawfish, crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster
large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters; American lobster, Homarus americanus, Maine lobster, Northern lobster
lobster of Atlantic coast of America; European lobster, Homarus vulgaris
lobster of Atlantic coast of Europe; Cape lobster, Homarus capensis
small lobster of southern Africa

Type of:: decapod, decapod crustacean
crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; American lobster, Maine lobster, Northern lobster
flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws; caught from Maine to the Carolinas; European lobster
similar to but smaller than American lobsters; Norwegian lobster, langoustine, scampo
caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster; lobster tail
lobster tail meat; usually from spiny rock lobsters

Type of:: shellfish
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

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