| 单词 | lobster |
| 释义 | lobster (once / 1334 pages) n A lobster is a hard-shelled animal that lives in salt water and has two big front claws, or pincers. People who are familiar with red cooked lobsters might be surprised to see that when they're alive they are brown, gray, or even blue. Lobsters are large crustaceans, which means they're related to shrimp, crabs, crawfish, and even barnacles. They live and feed on the bottom of the ocean, crawling on their ten legs and eating fish, worms, and sea plants. As a food, lobster is considered a delicacy today — although before the mid-19th century, it was thought of as food for poor people and prisoners in coastal New England. WORD FAMILYlobster: lobsters USAGE EXAMPLESThe Lobster Dip at Old Orchard Beach is the biggest of Maine’s polar plunges. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) “However, when the bill arrived, it included two lobster mac and cheese orders” at $18.50 each. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) Or the brief proposal to amend Maine’s constitution to exempt lobster traps from property taxes. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae Hypo|Hyper true lobster large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs Nephrops norvegicus, Norway lobsteredible European lobster resembling the American lobster but slenderer crawfish, crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobsterlarge edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters American lobster, Homarus americanus, Maine lobster, Northern lobsterlobster of Atlantic coast of America European lobster, Homarus vulgarislobster of Atlantic coast of Europe Cape lobster, Homarus capensissmall lobster of southern Africa decapod, decapod crustacean crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax 2n flesh of a lobster Hypo|Hyper American lobster, Maine lobster, Northern lobster flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws; caught from Maine to the Carolinas European lobstersimilar to but smaller than American lobsters Norwegian lobster, langoustine, scampocaught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster lobster taillobster tail meat; usually from spiny rock lobsters shellfish meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) |
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