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crawdad

DEFINITIONS OF: crawdad

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n small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

Synonyms:
crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish
Types:
Old World crayfish, ecrevisse
small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
American crayfish
common large crayfishes of eastern North America
Type of:
decapod, decapod crustacean
crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax

n tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

Synonyms:
crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse
Type of:
shellfish
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
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