"lobsterling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1910, Albert Davis Mead, A method of lobster culture:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1911, Francis Hobart Herrick, Natural history of the American lobster:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A young or miniature lobster."
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