american lobster

Questions about american lobster

What does american lobster mean?

american lobster means "flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws; caught from Maine to the Carolinas". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for american lobster?

Close synonyms include Northern lobster, Maine lobster, Northern lobster, Maine lobster, Homarus americanus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american lobster a common word?

american lobster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.