langoustine
Nephrops norvegicus
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- Language
- French
- Transliteration
- langoustine
- IPA
- /lɑ̃ɡustin/
From French langouste (spiny lobster) + diminutive suffix -ine ↳ langouste from Old Occitan langosta, from Vulgar Latin lacusta, from Latin locusta (locust, crustacean)
Norway lobster, a slender orange-pink lobster about 20 cm long with long narrow claws. Burrows in muddy seabed sediment at depths of 20-800 m. Found in the north-east Atlantic and the Mediterranean.