Lobster vs. Yabby

Lobsteradjective

red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

Lobsternoun

A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.

Lobsternoun

A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.

Lobsternoun

A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).

Lobsternoun

(slang) An Australian twenty dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

Lobsterverb

To fish for lobsters.

Lobsternoun

Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (Homarus Americanus), and the European lobster (Homarus 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 to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.

Lobsternoun

As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable person.

Lobsternoun

flesh of a lobster

Lobsternoun

any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae

Lobster

Lobsters are a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homeridae) of large marine crustaceans. Lobsters have long bodies with muscular tails, and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor.

Yabbynoun

(AU) A freshwater Australian crayfish of the genus Cherax, especially Cherax destructor.

Yabbynoun

(Australia) A type of ghost shrimp of the infraorder Thalassinidea.

Yabbyverb

(intransitive) To search for yabbies.