true lobster

Questions about true lobster

What does true lobster mean?

true lobster means "large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs".

Is true lobster a common word?

true 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.