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/lˈɑbstər/ Listen

noun

Lobster n. (Zool.)

Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (Homarus Americanus), and the European lobster (Homarus 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.

As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable person. (Slang)

Lobster caterpillar (Zool.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth (Stauropus fagi); so called from its form.

Lobster louse (Zool.), a copepod crustacean (Nicothoe astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lobster" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the foot of a Louse which is very much differing from those I have been describing, but more convenient and necessary for the place of its habitation, each of his leggs being footed with a couple of small claws which he can open or shut at pleasure, shap'd almost like the claws of a Lobster or Crab, but with appropriated contrivances for his peculiar life, which being to move its body to and fro upon the hairs of the creature it inhabits, Nature has furnish'd one of its claws with joints, almost like the joints of a man's fingers, so as thereby it is able to encompass ...

— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

... the shell and clean it; Bridget will have to show you how the first time. Or, if you are using canned lobster, pour away all the juice and pick out the bits of shell, and find the black string which is apt to be there, and throw it away. Cut the meat in pieces as large as the end of your finger, and heat it in the sauce till it steams. Put in a small ...

— A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl • Caroline French Benton

... we fallible mortals know! Even as he spoke, a tiny fragment of lobster shell, which had been working its way silently into the tip of his tongue, was settling down under the skin and getting ready to cause him the most acute mental distress which ...

— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... way from all other friends, for the table had been spread for a more numerous assembly, and the company sat in little clusters, with dreary gaps between, where moulds of jelly quaked in vain, and lobster-salads wasted their sweetness on the desert air. Her uncle could just be seen in the far perspective at the head of the table, and, between him and the Earl, Louis descried his Aunt Catharine, looking bright, with a little embellishing flush on ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. II) • Charlotte M. Yonge

... reached by a dozen marble steps, and the odour of its griddle-cakes took the air of the street. Ninian made a great show of selecting a table, changed once, called the waiter "my man" and rubbed soft hands on "What do you say? Shall it be lobster?" He ordered the dinner, instructing the waiter with ...

— Miss Lulu Bett • Zona Gale

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