crab vs lobster
Definitions
noun
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
verb
- scurry sideways like a crab
- fish for crab
- complain
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
Examples
After Colette left he cleared his throat and looked through a newspaper, his long fingers scrabbling a bit at the pages.
Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life, an execrable test of value.
Definitions
noun
- flesh of a lobster
- any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
Examples
It takes about eight seconds for a pair of lobsters to copulate; it takes a lot longer to get them into the mood.
Lobsters, like all animals with exoskeletons, periodically shed their armor as they grow.
On one wreck off the south coast we saw huge lobsters scuttling across the ship.
