lobster
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒb.stə/
The English word “lobster” has 8 meanings listed here.
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).
- A squat lobster.
- A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
- An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
verb
- To fish for lobsters.
adjective
Etymology
From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster). Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe…
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