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Look up: Lobster

  1. Lobster
    This crustacean was used as bait until around 1880. Because dead lobsters spoil quickly, they should be cooked live if possible. (Live lobsters curl their tails under when picked up.) Look for curled tails on precooked lobsters.
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  2. lobster
    [n] - flesh of a lobster 2. [n] - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. lobster
    A fishing vessel used for setting pots to catch lobsters,crabs,crayfish and other similar species.These vessels range from open boats operating inshore to small decked vessels operating to the edge of the continental shelf. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Lobster
    Lob'ster noun [ Anglo-Saxon loppestre , lopystre probably , corrupted from Latin locusta a marine shellfish, a kind of lobster, a locust. Confer Locust .] (Zoology) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. tho...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/54

  5. Lobster
    Lob'ster noun As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable person. [ Slang]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/54

  6. lobster
    <zoology> Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, especially. Those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. Vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spin...
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  7. lobster
    noun any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
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  8. lobster
    noun flesh of a lobster
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  9. Lobster
    • (n.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. lobster
    any of numerous marine crustaceans (order Decapoda) constituting the families Homaridae (or Nephropsidae), true lobsters; Palinuridae, spiny ... [6 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/l/64

  11. Lobster
    Lobster is slang for a person who is sunburnt.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  12. Lobster
    Lobster is slang for a person who is sunburnt.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  13. lobster
    lobster, marine crustacean with five pairs of jointed legs, the first bearing large pincerlike claws of unequal size adapted to crushing the shells of its prey. The segmented body of the lobster consists of a large cephalothorax (made up of 14 segments) and a moveable, muscular abdomen (composed of ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08300

  14. Lobster
    The lobster (Homarus) is an edible long-tailed, decapodous (ten-footed), stalk-eyed crustacean of the family Nephropsidae, sub-class Malacostraca found along the coasts of the north Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The true lobsters are distinguished by having the first three pairs of legs terminatin...
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  15. lobster
    Any of various large marine crustaceans. Lobsters are grouped with freshwater crayfish in the suborder Reptantia (`walking`), although both lobsters and crayfish can also swim, using their fanlike tails. Lobsters have eyes on stalks and long antennae, and are mainly nocturnal. They scavenge...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  16. Lobster
    Clawed `lobsters` comprise a family (`Nephropidae`, sometimes also `Homaridae`) of large marine crustaceans. Highly-prized as publisher=McGill University-->--> Though several groups of crustaceans are known as lobsters, the clawed lobsters are most often associated with the name. They are also rever...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster

  17. Lobster
    (magazine) `Lobster` is a twice yearly British magazine (June and December) focusing on parapolitics. The last issue to appear in printed form, was published in June 2009 - two more issues have appeared online since then in December 2009 and June 2010. The magazine`s philosophy is: :&q...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster

  18. LOBSTER
    Objectives: Currently : More than 25 `LOBSTER sensors` have been deployed across Europe by several organisations. Using the monitoring applications developed within the project, researchers and administrators are able to monitor the Internet traffic for gaining a better understanding of its performa...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOBSTER



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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