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Definition of Crayfish

1. Noun. Warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California.

2. Noun. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.

3. Noun. Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster.

4. Noun. Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.

Definition of Crayfish

1. n. See Crawfish.

Definition of Crayfish

1. Noun. A freshwater crustacean (Cambaridae) resembling a small lobster, sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait. ¹

2. Noun. (AU NZ South Africa) A rock lobster. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crayfish

1. a crustacean [n -ES] - See also: crustacean

Medical Definition of Crayfish

1. Various freshwater crustaceans resembling the lobster, but usually much smaller; common genera are astacus, cambarus, oronectes, and pacifastacus. It includes crayfish as food. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crayfish

crawling crawlingly crawls crawlspace crawlspaces crawlway crawlways crawly craws crawthumper

cray craye crayer crayers crayes crayfish (current term) crayfisher crayfisheries crayfisherman crayfishermen

crayfishers crayfishery crayfishes crayon crayoned crayoner crayoners crayoning crayonist crayonists

Literary usage of Crayfish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"It is not generally known that the sales of crayfish in the United States ... crayfish bearing egcs. While the supply of wild crayfish seems at present ..."

2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"The most striking thing in the appearance of the crayfish is the great pair of ... But the tale of the crayfish's legs is by no means told; for between and ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1894)
"Professor Huxley, in his well-known works on the crayfish,* referring more particularly to the European Astacus, observes, " I have not been able to ..."

4. A Text-book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses by William Martin Smallwood (1918)
"crayfish have been known to scientists ever since Aristotle wrote about the ... In the United States there are some 70 species of crayfish, the most of ..."

5. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1906)
"REACTIONS OF THE crayfish BY J. CARLETON BELL THE crayfish has long been the typical Crustacean forrn anatomical and physiological investigations, ..."

6. An Elementary Course in Practical Zoölogy by Buel Preston Colton (1898)
"THE crayfish. Get a number of live crayfishes. They are usually to be found hidden under stones in the shallow water of creeks. Put into alcohol at least ..."

7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"HUXLEY ON THE crayfish.*—Whether it is because we ... This book, which is a monograph of the crayfish from 1 ..."

8. An Introduction to Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1910)
"The lobster is so nearly like the crayfish in structure that the anatomical portion of this ... In Europe the most common crayfish is Astacus fluviatilis, ..."

9. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"It is not generally known that the sales of crayfish in the United States ... crayfish bearing egcs. While the supply of wild crayfish seems at present ..."

10. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"The most striking thing in the appearance of the crayfish is the great pair of ... But the tale of the crayfish's legs is by no means told; for between and ..."

11. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1894)
"Professor Huxley, in his well-known works on the crayfish,* referring more particularly to the European Astacus, observes, " I have not been able to ..."

12. A Text-book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses by William Martin Smallwood (1918)
"crayfish have been known to scientists ever since Aristotle wrote about the ... In the United States there are some 70 species of crayfish, the most of ..."

13. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1906)
"REACTIONS OF THE crayfish BY J. CARLETON BELL THE crayfish has long been the typical Crustacean forrn anatomical and physiological investigations, ..."

14. An Elementary Course in Practical Zoölogy by Buel Preston Colton (1898)
"THE crayfish. Get a number of live crayfishes. They are usually to be found hidden under stones in the shallow water of creeks. Put into alcohol at least ..."

15. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"HUXLEY ON THE crayfish.*—Whether it is because we ... This book, which is a monograph of the crayfish from 1 ..."

16. An Introduction to Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1910)
"The lobster is so nearly like the crayfish in structure that the anatomical portion of this ... In Europe the most common crayfish is Astacus fluviatilis, ..."

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