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English
Etymology
From lobster + -ling.
Noun
lobsterling (plural lobsterlings)
- A young or miniature lobster.
1910, Albert Davis Mead, A method of lobster culture:In the first few days of the fourth stage the lobsterlings are good swimmers — this is their "redeeming vice" — but the swimming is strong and bears no comparison to the aimless drifting movement characteristic of larval stages.
1911, Francis Hobart Herrick, Natural history of the American lobster:The approach of the molt seems to start the lobsterling on its course to the bottom; accordingly when this is delayed until after the fourth stage, it probably does not often occur until the approach of the succeeding molt.