Shrimp vs. Lobster

Shrimpnoun

Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.

Shrimpnoun

(uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.

Shrimpnoun

(slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.

Shrimpverb

(intransitive) To fish for shrimp.

Shrimpverb

To contract; to shrink.

Shrimpverb

To contract; to shrink.

Shrimpnoun

Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda.

Shrimpnoun

Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; - in contempt.

Shrimpnoun

disparaging terms for small people

Shrimpnoun

any of various edible decapod crustaceans

Shrimpnoun

small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

Shrimpverb

fish for shrimp

Shrimp

Shrimp are decapod crustaceans with elongated bodies and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – most commonly Caridea and Dendrobranchiata. More narrow definitions may be restricted to Caridea, to smaller species of either group or to only the marine species.

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.