crayfish

/ˌkreɪˈfɪʃ/
/ˈkreɪfɪʃ/
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Other forms: crayfishes

Definitions of crayfish
  1. noun
    small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
    synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish
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    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
  2. noun
    tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
    synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse
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    type of:
    shellfish
    meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
  3. noun
    large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
    synonyms: crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster
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    type of:
    lobster
    any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
  4. noun
    warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
    synonyms: langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster
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    type of:
    shellfish
    meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
Pronunciation
US
/ˌkreɪˈfɪʃ/
UK
/ˈkreɪfɪʃ/
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