LOBSTER

noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English loppestre, from loppe spider Date: before 12th century any of a family (Nephropidae and especially Homarus americanus ) of large edible marine decapod crustaceans that have stalked eyes, a pair of large claws, and a long abdomen and that include species from coasts on both sides of the North Atlantic and from the Cape of Good Hope, spiny ~ , ~like adjective