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crayfish

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Noun

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cray=fish

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun crayfish has 4 senses

crayfish(n = noun.food) langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster - warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California; Array

is a part of crawfish, crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster

is a kind of shellfish

crayfish(n = noun.food) crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly; Array

is a part of ecrevisse, old world crayfish, american crayfish

is a kind of shellfish

crayfish(n = noun.animal) crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster; Array

is a kind of decapod, decapod crustacean

is a member of astacidae, astacura, family astacidae

has particulars: ecrevisse, old world crayfish, american crayfish

crayfish(n = noun.animal) crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters; Array

is a kind of lobster

is a member of genus palinurus, palinurus

has parts: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster

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CIDE DICTIONARY

crayfish, n. [Corrupted fr. OE. crevis, creves, OF. crevice, F. écrevisse, fr. OHG. krebiz crab, G. krebs. See Crab. The ending -fish arose from confusion with E. fish.].

Any decapod crustacean of the family Astacidæ (genera Cambarus and Cambarus), resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis. [1913 Webster]
tiny lobsterlike crustaceans usually boiled briefly. [WordNet 1.5]
a large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters. [WordNet 1.5]

crayfish, n.

See Crawfish. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

crayfish, n. (pl. same)
1 a small lobster-like freshwater crustacean.
2 a crawfish.

Etymology

ME f. OF crevice, crevis, ult. f. OHG krebiz CRAB(1): assim. to FISH(1)

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DEVIL DICTIONARY

crayfish

n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

In this small fish I take it that human wisdom is admirably
figured and symbolized; for whereas the crayfish doth move only
backward, and can have only retrospection, seeing naught but the
perils already passed, so the wisdom of man doth not enable him to
avoid the follies that beset his course, but only to apprehend
their nature afterward.
Sir James Merivale

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