maine lobster

Questions about maine lobster

What does maine lobster mean?

maine 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 maine lobster?

Close synonyms include American lobster, Northern lobster, American lobster, Northern 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 maine lobster a common word?

maine lobster is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.