Lobster vs. Langoustine — What's the Difference?

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.

A small edible lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, having slender claws. Also called Norway lobster, scampi.

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.

A small edible European orange-pink lobster, Nephrops norvegicus

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

Caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster

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