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单词 langoustine
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Definition of langoustine in English:

langoustine

noun ˈlɒŋɡʊstiːnˈlaNGɡəˌstēn
  • another term for Norway lobster, especially when prepared and cooked
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For main, if your'e feeling decadent, why not go for the lobster platter; langoustines, mussels, whelks, oysters all surround the halved lobster on a bed of ice.
    • It was glorious: huge scallops, dressed crab, mussels, prawns, langoustines, various fillets of fish and an enormous lobster tail - all caught that day.
    • Oh they're really quite small, they'd be about the same size as a nice big tiger prawn or a langoustine, so half the size of a lobster that you would expect to buy in the shop that had been caught in the wild.
    • Arrange the langoustines or tiger prawns on top and scatter with Parmesan shavings.
    • Colin hand-dives for scallops when he has time, and a friend's creels supply us with crabs and lobsters, crayfish and langoustines.

Origin

French, from langouste (see langouste).

Rhymes

Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean

Definition of langoustine in US English:

langoustine

nounˈlaNGɡəˌstēn
  • A large, commercially important prawn.

    Nephrops norvegicus, class Malacostraca

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Arrange the langoustines or tiger prawns on top and scatter with Parmesan shavings.
    • Colin hand-dives for scallops when he has time, and a friend's creels supply us with crabs and lobsters, crayfish and langoustines.
    • For main, if your'e feeling decadent, why not go for the lobster platter; langoustines, mussels, whelks, oysters all surround the halved lobster on a bed of ice.
    • It was glorious: huge scallops, dressed crab, mussels, prawns, langoustines, various fillets of fish and an enormous lobster tail - all caught that day.
    • Oh they're really quite small, they'd be about the same size as a nice big tiger prawn or a langoustine, so half the size of a lobster that you would expect to buy in the shop that had been caught in the wild.

Origin

French, from langouste (see langouste).

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