lobster

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The brain of a lobster is about the size of a grasshopper's brain and lacks complexity.

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  1. noun Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the family Homaridae, especially of the genus Homarus, having stalked eyes, long antennae, and five pairs of legs, the first pair of which is modified into large pincers.
  2. noun Any of several crustaceans, such as the spiny lobster, that are related to the lobsters.
  3. noun The flesh of a lobster used as food.

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  1. Middle English lopster, lobstere, from Old English loppestre, alteration (perhaps influenced by loppe, lobbe, spider) of Latin locusta.

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  1. Early modern English also lobstar, lopster; from Middle English lopstere, loppester, loppister, a lobster, a stoat, from Anglo-Saxon loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, a lobster; cf. lopust, a locust, for *locust, from Latin locusta, a shell-fish, lobster, also a locust: see locust.
  2. lob, v., + -ster; in humorous allusion to lobster, n., 5 or 6.
 

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/ˈlɑbstər/
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