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large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging t…

A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.

A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end.

The depertment of zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.

e find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a coclke; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634).

The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.

The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.

Any crustacean of the family Astacidæ, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mamoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The…

The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster. [Prov. Eng.]

he act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

s; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.

linder at the other end, and the connecting rod at an intermediate point. -- Grasshopper lobster (Zoöl.) a young lobster. [Local, U. S.] -- Grasshopper warbler (Zoöl.), cricket bird.

f Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. -- Hom"a*roid, a.

representative or repetitive relation in the segments of the same organism, -- as in the lobster, where the parts follow each other in a straight line or series. Owen. See Homotypy. -- Special homology (Biol.), the correspondence of a part or organ with those of a different animal, as determined by relative position…

A sudden start or spring. Lobsters . . . swim backwards by jerks or springs. Grew.