lobster (a crustacean of the Nephropidae, or Homaridae, family)
“[…] dans les écrevisses & dans les homards, les dents ne sont placées que dans la cavité même de l'estomac […]” — […] in crayfish and lobsters, the teeth are located only inside the stomach cavity […]
Synonyms: lobster
Related: homard à l'américaine, homard américain, homard breton, homard canadien, homard européen
From Middle French homard, hommars, houmar (all 16th c.), probably via Middle Low German hummer from Old Norse humarr (“lobster”), from Proto-Germanic *humaraz. A direct borrowing from Scandinavian is less likely regarding the late attestation. Dutch hommer dates from the 19th century and cannot have been the source. Cognate with German Hummer, Middle English hemroll, all “lobster”.