Definitions for crayfish



Overview of noun crayfish

The noun crayfish has 4 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish

(warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California)

2. crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse

(tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly)

3. crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy

(small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster)

4. spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish

(large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters)

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