Definition of True lobster

1. Noun. Large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of True Lobster

true dwarfism
true fir
true flycatcher
true frog
true frogs
true fungus
true glottis
true guava
true heath
true hypertrophy
true jasmine
true knot
true laurel
true leaf
true lobster (current term)
true love
true lover's knot
true lover's knots
true loves
true mahogany
true marmoset
true muscles of back
true name
true names
true or false
true pelvis
true pepper
true pine

Literary usage of True lobster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1887)
"One can hardly credit a butterfly with the ideas of a Columbus. In Crustacea our waters are rich enough. We have no true lobster ..."

2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1896)
"Only two other species of true lobster beside our own are ' known to science'—the American and the Cape lobsters. They differ in petty details alone from ..."

3. Food Industries: An Elementary Textbook on the Production and Manufacture of by Hermann Theodore Vulté, Sadie Bird Vanderbilt (1920)
"... system and the Pacific Coast sometimes replaces the true lobster of the Atlantic. POULTRY. Varieties of market poultry include chickens, ..."

4. Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes; the by Clarence Edgar Edwords (1914)
"The true lobster is not found in the Pacific along the California coast, and so far efforts at transplanting have not been successful. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"All are edible, the spiny lobster replacing the true lobster as an article of food in the warmer parts of the earth; (4) in ichthyology, a sub-order of ..."

6. Report Upon the Invertebrate Animals of Vineyard Sound and Adjacent Waters by Addison Emery Verrill (1874)
"The young lobsters were also found swimming actively at the surface by Mr. SI Smith, even after they had acquired the true lobster-like form and structure, ..."

7. The Source, Chemistry and Use of Food Products by Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey (1914)
"The so-called lobsters used as food on the Pacific coast are large crawfish and contain less edible matter than the true lobster. CRABS The flesh of the ..."

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