Langouste vs. Lobster — What's the Difference?

See spiny lobster.

Lobsters are a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homeridae) of large marine crustaceans. Lobsters have long bodies with muscular tails, and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor.

The spiny lobster

Any of several edible marine decapod crustaceans of the family Nephropidae, especially of the genus Homarus, having stalked eyes, long antennae, a pair of large pincers, and a cylindrical body.

Warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

Any of several similar crustaceans, such as a spiny lobster.

Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

The flesh of a lobster used as food.

To catch or try to catch lobsters.

Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.

A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.

A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).

(slang) An Australian twenty dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

To fish for lobsters.

Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (Homarus Americanus), and the European lobster (Homarus vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.

As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable person.

Flesh of a lobster

Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae