northern lobster

Questions about northern lobster

What does northern lobster mean?

northern 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 northern lobster?

Close synonyms include American lobster, Maine lobster, American 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 northern lobster a common word?

northern 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.