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lobster
/ˈlɑb.stɚ/
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What does lobster mean?
noun
- A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.
- A spiny lobster, also called the rock lobster, a crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
- A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
More meanings (5)
noun
- A squat lobster.
- (slang) An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
- (historical, slang) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
verb
- To fish for lobsters.
adjective
- Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.
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The epiphyllum, or lobster cactus, or crab cactus, is one of the best of the family, easy of culture.
Her brother, who wants to play with a bronze Japanese lobster, ask "Will you please let me have that tiger?"
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By and by, I saw him, with the majority of a lobster on his plate, eating his dinner at the feet of Dora!
I don't insist on claret—or a lobster—I don't insist on lobster, but a lobster salad without a lobster, why it isn't lobster salad.
At the end of the second day, the characteristic, bright scarlet efflorescence, somewhat similar to the colour of a boiled lobster, usually first shows itself.