[syn: American lobster, Northern lobster, Maine lobster, Homarus americanus]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
maine lobster \maine lobster\ n.
1. Any of several cold-water lobsters with large tender
claws, caught from Maine to the Carolinas.
Syn: American lobster, Northern lobster.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. A lobster (Homarus americanus) found off the Atlantic
coast of North America.
Syn: American lobster, Northern lobster, Homarus
americanus.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Maine lobster
n 1: flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws;
caught from Maine to the Carolinas [syn: American
lobster, Northern lobster, Maine lobster]
2: lobster of Atlantic coast of America [syn: American
lobster, Northern lobster, Maine lobster, Homarus
americanus]