chicken
Homarus gammarus
#nm_0605📍 International
- Language
- English
- Measurement
- 0.45 — 0.55 kg
- Transliteration
- chicken
English chicken (US/Canada lobster trade grade, the smallest legal market size); plain trade-grading vocabulary, from the everyday use of chicken for anything notably small or young, as in the phrase spring chicken — no deeper origin is on record
European lobster, a large clawed marine crustacean. Blue-black above and yellowish below, turning red only when cooked; the claws are unequal, a heavy rounded crusher and a sharp-edged cutter. Grows to 60cm and 5-6kg, though most caught are 23-38cm. Shelters in holes and crevices on rocky or hard-mud bottoms of the continental shelf, feeding on crabs, molluscs, sea urchins and worms.