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Lobster vs Marron - What's the difference?

lobster | marron |

As nouns the difference between lobster and marron

is that lobster is a crustacean of the family: 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 while marron is a sweet chestnut.

As an adjective lobster

is red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

As a verb lobster

is to fish for lobsters.

lobster

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

    • Noun

  • A crustacean of the 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.
  • (historical) 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (British soldier ) lobsterback, redcoat

    Hyponyms

    * (crustacean in Palinuridae) cray, langouste, spiny lobster, rock lobster

    Derived terms

    * bight lobster * furry lobster * globster * lobsterback * lobster caterpillar * lobsterer * lobsterette * lobsterish * lobsterlike * lobster louse * lobsterman * lobster pot * lobster pound * lobster shift * lobster thermidor * lobstery * Norway lobster * reef lobster * rock lobster * slipper lobster * spiny lobster * squat lobster * true lobster

    See also

    * crawfish * crayfish * prawn * shrimp * yabby * (pedia)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fish for lobsters.

    • Anagrams

    *

    marron

    English

    Etymology 1

    Variant form of , later reinforced by (etyl) marron.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sweet chestnut.
  • *2007 , (Craig Silvey), Jasper Jones , Allen & Unwin 2007, p. 137:
  • *:‘I mean, shit, even if I had've come down here of a weekend and taken back a sack full of marron , I would have killed the pig up there.’
    • Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia marron) (Cherax tenuimanus) (Cherax tenuimanus) (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • , a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia.
    • Synonyms
    * hairy marron, Margaret River marron

    See also

    * gilgie, jilgie * yabby, yabbie ----