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Definitions for lobster
ˈlɒb stərlob·ster

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lobsternoun

    flesh of a lobster

  2. lobsternoun

    any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae

Wiktionary

  1. lobsternoun

    A crustacean of the Nephrodidae family, normally red in colour, with claws, which is used as an expensive seafood.

  2. lobsternoun

    A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).

  3. lobsternoun

    An Australian twenty dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

  4. lobsterverb

    To fish for lobsters.

  5. lobsteradjective

    red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

  6. Etymology: From lopster, from loppeſtre, believed to be a corruption of locusta + the feminine agent suffix -estre; or from lobbe, loppe + the feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to. More at lop.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lobsternoun

    A crustaceous fish.

    Etymology: lobster , Saxon.

    Those that cast their shell, are the lobster, the crab, and craw-fish. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 732.

    It happeneth often that a lobster hath the great claw of one side longer than the other. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

Wikipedia

  1. Lobster

    Lobsters are a family (Nephropidae, synonym Homaridae) of marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs have claws, including the first pair, which are usually much larger than the others. Highly prized as seafood, lobsters are economically important and are often one of the most profitable commodities in coastal areas they populate.Commercially important species include two species of Homarus from the northern Atlantic Ocean and scampi (which look more like a shrimp, or a "mini lobster")—the Northern Hemisphere genus Nephrops and the Southern Hemisphere genus Metanephrops.

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  1. lobster

    A lobster is a type of large marine crustacean that is usually found on the ocean's floor. They are characterized by their large size, long bodies, hard exoskeletons, and two large claws, one bigger and stronger for crushing and one smaller and sharper for cutting food. Lobsters are a highly valued seafood, often consumed after being boiled or steamed. There are numerous species of lobsters distributed worldwide, varying in size and characteristics.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lobsternoun

    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

  2. Etymology: [AS. loppestre, lopystre prob., corrupted fr. L. locusta a marine shellfish, a kind of lobster, a locust. Cf. Locust.]

Wikidata

  1. Lobster

    Clawed lobsters comprise a family of large marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails, and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs have claws, including the first pair, which are usually much larger than the others. Highly prized as seafood, lobsters are economically important, and are often one of the most profitable commodities in coastal areas they populate. Commercially important species include two species of Homarus from the northern Atlantic Ocean, and scampi – the northern-hemisphere genus Nephrops and the southern-hemisphere genus Metanephrops. Although several other groups of crustaceans have the word "lobster" in their names, the unqualified term "lobster" generally refers to the clawed lobsters of the family Nephropidae. Clawed lobsters are not closely related to spiny lobsters or slipper lobsters, which have no claws, or to squat lobsters. The closest living relatives of clawed lobsters are the reef lobsters and the three families of freshwater crayfish.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Lobster

    lob′stėr, n. a shellfish with large claws, used for food: (slang) a British soldier. [A.S. loppestre, lopust—L. locusta, a lobster.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. LOBSTER

    The edible lobster is found off the New England Coast. The two-legged species is found everywhere. All kinds are green, but when roasted turn a bright red. Soubrettes are very dependent on both varieties for a living; together they furnish her with food, raiment, flats, diamonds, and occasionally indigestion.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. lobster

    A well-known marine crustacean, Astacus marinus. Also, red-coats of old; whence lobster-box, a colloquialism for barracks.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lobster in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lobster in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of lobster in a Sentence

  1. Joey Ciaramitaro:

    Some people really love the idea of sending it back to sea because it's such a strange oddity, and I don't think there's a right or wrong answer. I think maybe the wrong answer would be to just boil it up and treat it like any other lobster.

  2. Nathan Nickerson III almost:

    There's no place for the lobster to hide. They like rocky bottoms, and also there are thousands of lobster traps out there now, i'm sure it's going to get picked up again.

  3. Kurt Busch:

    I tried to donate it back to the Boston Aquarium. I didn't want to eat the poor guy, but I learned that, when you are on the bottom of the ocean for 80 years and you are dragged up to the surface, you are not all that happy. The stress and turmoil for the lobster, he wasn't going to make it anyway. We probably should have cooked him up, dipped him in butter and celebrated.

  4. Javier Luque:

    We started looking at these fossils and we found they had what looked like the eyes of a larva, the mouth of a shrimp, claws of a frog crab, and the carapace of a lobster, we have an idea of what a typical crab looks like — and these new fossils break all those rules.

  5. Melaina Lewis:

    Featuring Maine Lobster as the marquee dish during a State Dinner at the White House sends a message that it is one of the most sustainable fisheries in the world, not to mention delicious, it is our hope that the President will share the story of this iconic fishery with his guests and redouble efforts to protect the livelihoods of the men and women who harvest and maintain the resource.

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