quarter
Homarus gammarus
#nm_0606📍 International
- Language
- English
- Measurement
- 0.55 — 0.7 kg
- Transliteration
- quarter
English quarter (US/Canada lobster trade grade, above chicken); plain trade-grading vocabulary — a market-size label, not a fraction of a specific weight and not a compound with a deeper origin
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.