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Crawfish   /krˈɔfˌɪʃ/   Listen
Crawfish

noun
(pl. crayfishes or crayfish)
1.
Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.  Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse.
2.
Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster.  Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish.
3.
Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.  Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster.






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"Crawfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the island of Cocoas. Here fresh water was obtained, and one of the canoes brought on board as many boobies and man-of-war birds as was sufficient for all the ship's company. They caught also a land animal resembling a large crawfish without its great claws. Their flesh was very good, and they were so large that no man could eat two of them at ...
— Notable Voyagers - From Columbus to Nordenskiold • W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith

... somewhat after the manner of the otter. It has a most wide range of diet, and will eat almost anything which is at all eatable. Fishes, frogs, and muskrats are his especial delight, and he will occasionally succeed in pouncing upon a snipe or wild duck, which he will greedily devour. Crawfish, [Page 190] snails, and water insects of all kinds also come within the range of his diet, and he sometimes makes a stray visit to some neighboring poultry yard to satisfy the craving of his abnormal hunger. A meal off from his own offspring often answers the same purpose; and a young chicken in ...
— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson

... that dark day to the present, Whoso had taken the Pobble's toes, In a manner so far from pleasant. Whether the shrimps or crawfish gray, Or crafty mermaids stole them away, Nobody knew; and nobody knows How the Pobble was robbed of ...
— Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing - Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study • Anonymous



Words linked to "Crawfish" :   retire, lobster, American crayfish, Palinurus, draw back, family Astacidae, Astacura, move back, pull away, recede, decapod, genus Palinurus, Astacidae, Old World crayfish, decapod crustacean, pull in one's horns, shellfish



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