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Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae.

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Usage examples (34)
  • The "lady" of a lobster is a curious-shaped substance in the head of that fish, bearing some distant resemblance to the figure of a woman.
  • I don't know whether a lobster is conscious or not.
  • The rest of the lobster is chopped along the segments.
  • Usually lobster is thought of as a tender, delicate morsel.
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