Crayfish

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  • noun. Any of various freshwater crustaceans of the families Astacidae and Cambaridae of the Northern Hemisphere and the family Parastacidae of the Southern Hemisphere, resembling a lobster but considerably smaller.
  • noun. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See crawfish.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See crawfish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A freshwater crustacean (Cambaridae) resembling a small lobster, sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
  • noun. A rock lobster.
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  • noun. small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  • noun. tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
  • noun. warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
  • noun. large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
    • Word Usage
    "The rattle rap in crayfish color is great in crayfish waters for smallies, so I've found."
    cross-reference
    lobster  prawn  shrimp  yabby  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    lobster  shellfish  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abalone  brackish-water  chipotle  crawfish  diamond-back  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    crawdad  crawfish  mudbug  yabby  
    variant
    crawfish  crayfishes  
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