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Definition of: lobster
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(lob′stər) noun
1. A marine crustacean (genus Homarus) much used as food, having a large first pair of ambulatory legs, which form the claws, and compound eyes carried on flexible stalks.
2. One of various other long–tailed crustaceans, as a spiny lobster or crayfish. [OE loppestre lobster, grasshopper <L locusta lobster, locust; infl. in form by loppe spider. Doublet of LOCUST.]
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