true lobster

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true lobster - large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs

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

family Homaridae, Homaridae - large-clawed lobsters

Homarus americanus, Maine lobster, Northern lobster, American lobster - lobster of Atlantic coast of America

Homarus vulgaris, European lobster - lobster of Atlantic coast of Europe

Cape lobster, Homarus capensis - small lobster of southern Africa

lobster - flesh of a lobster

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Some contend there's only one true lobster: the American one that made Maine famous.

The shellfish revolution

According to a report in Live Science, wood might be the main course for Munidopsis andamanica, a crustacean known as a "squat lobster," which is related to true lobsters.

Lobster-like creature feasts on wood to survive in deep sea

The large, frontal claws are characteristic of true lobsters, grouped in the family Homaridae.