English

land lobster

From land + lobster.

A compound of land + lobster

Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- ‘land’

Proto-Germanic *landą

Proto-West Germanic *land ‘land’

Old English land

Middle English lond ‘an independent nation’

English land

Old English loppestre

Middle English loppestere ‘a lobster or crayfish’

Today it means

noun The Lord Howe Island stick insect (phasmid), Dryococelus australis.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / land lobster