Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various freshwater crustaceans of the families Astacidae and Cambaridae of the Northern Hemisphere and the family Parastacidae of the Southern Hemisphere, resembling a lobster but considerably smaller.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
crawfish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
crawfish .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A freshwater
crustacean (Cambaridae) resembling a smalllobster , sometimes used as an inexpensiveseafood or as fishbait . - noun Australia, New Zealand, South Africa A rock
lobster .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
- noun tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
- noun warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
- noun large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The rattle rap in crayfish color is great in crayfish waters for smallies, so I've found.
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The rattle rap in crayfish color is great in crayfish waters for smallies, so I've found.
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The rattle rap in crayfish color is great in crayfish waters for smallies, so I've found.
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Gretchen Hansen Depending on the student, eating crayfish is either a perk of the job or the bane -- "a negative calorie operation," according to some -- because of the amount of energy it takes to pick and prod f or the morsels of meat.
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The rattle rap in crayfish color is great in crayfish waters for smallies, so I've found.
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The rattle rap in crayfish color is great in crayfish waters for smallies, so I've found.
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The rattle rap in crayfish color is great in crayfish waters for smallies, so I've found.
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The rattle rap in crayfish color is great in crayfish waters for smallies, so I've found.
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The rattle rap in crayfish color is great in crayfish waters for smallies, so I've found.
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Depending on the student, eating crayfish is either a perk of the job or a curse — "a negative-calorie operation," according to Tim Kratz, director of the research station — because of the energy it takes to pick and prod for the morsels of meat.
Pursuers of Alien Invaders Eat Their Fill of What They Kill Shirley S. Wang 2010
frogapplause commented on the word crayfish
We call them crawdads.
September 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word crayfish
You'll appreciate this project then, fa.
September 10, 2008
frogapplause commented on the word crayfish
I no longer feel alone in my aloneness. Thanks, reesetee.
September 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word crayfish
Good to hear. :-)
September 10, 2008