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  • adjective Similar to a lobster.

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Examples

  • We found lobsters among the rocks, too, and on some beaches a strange kind of lobsterish delicacy called in Tahiti _varo_, a kind of mantis-shrimp that looks like a superlatively villainous centipede.

    White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • At this moment the jolly subject of their conversation thrust his laughing, lobsterish face into the room.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • At this moment the jolly subject of their conversation thrust his laughing, lobsterish face into the room.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Twice Flandry lay prone and watched combats: bugs swarming over a walking red globe with lobsterish claws; a constrictor shape entangled with a mobile battering ram.

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

  • At this moment the jolly subject of their conversation thrust his laughing, lobsterish face into the room.

    The Wisdom of Father Brown 1905

  • But whenever I read it it calls forth for me an image that surely was nothing at all like what Eliot had in mind: that silent sea is, for me, the paleozoic one of the Cambrian or Silurian period of four hundred million years ago, and the owner of that pair of ragged claws is the curious mud-crawling creature known as a _eurypterid, _ a vaguely lobsterish thing that reached lengths of eight feet and more.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • Catmint, lamb’s-quarter, and goldenrod impart a lobsterish flavor—not terrible in itself but not exactly what you want in a glass of milk.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • Thanks to the early adopters I asked for my lobster on an actual roll and they obliged and had a chuckle ‘ one lobster roll on a roll ‘ – it was just ok, very meh: it is really a lobsterish salad on a roll (or wrap) and the lobster meat (what little there is of it) is totally overpowered by the onions.

    Certe’s Lobster Roll is $9 (For One Day Only) | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2009

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