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lobster |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lobster \Lob"ster\, n. [AS. loppestre lopystre prob., corrupted fr L. locusta a marine shellfish, a kind of lobster, a locust. Cf {Locust}.] (Zo["o]l.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus {Homarus}; as the American lobster ({H. Americanus}), and the European lobster ({H. vulgaris}). The Norwegian lobster ({Nephrops Norvegicus}) is similar in form All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to {Palinurus}, {Panulirus}, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters. {Lobster caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth ({Stauropus fagi}); -- so called from its form {Lobster louse} (Zo["o]l.), a copepod crustacean ({Nicotho["e] astaci}) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lobster \Lob"ster\, n. As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable person. [Slang] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lobster n 1: flesh of a lobster 2: any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
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