Lobster vs. Scampi — 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.

Scampi, also called Dublin Bay Prawn or Norway Lobster (Nephrops norvegicus), is an edible lobster of the order Decapoda. It is widespread in the Mediterranean and northeastern Atlantic, from North Africa to Norway and Iceland, and is a gastronomic delicacy.

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.

Large shrimp broiled or sautéed and served in a garlic and butter sauce.

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

See langoustine.

The flesh of a lobster used as food.

Served in a garlic and butter sauce

To catch or try to catch lobsters.

A Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus).

Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

Any member of a similar species of genus Nephrops or similar prawns.

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.

Plural of scampo

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

Large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic

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