Crayfish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various freshwater crustaceans of the genera Cambarus and Astacus, resembling a lobster but considerably smaller. Also called mudbug; also called regionally crawdad.
  • n. See spiny lobster.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A freshwater crustacean (Cambaridae) resembling a small lobster, sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
  • n. A rock lobster.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See crawfish.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See crawfish.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  • n. tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
  • n. warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
  • n. large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shellfish    lobster   
    Cross Reference
    shrimp    prawn    lobster    yabby   
    Variant
    crayfishes    crawfish   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mudbug    crawfish    crawdad    yabby   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shellfish    jumbo    soft-shell    fresh-water    sea-grass   
     
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