CRAWFISH (crawfishes)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crawfish mean?
• CRAWFISH (noun)
The noun CRAWFISH has 3 senses:
1. tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
2. small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
3. large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
Familiarity information: CRAWFISH used as a noun is uncommon.
• CRAWFISH (verb)
The verb CRAWFISH has 1 sense:
1. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
Familiarity information: CRAWFISH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CRAWFISH (noun)
Meaning:
Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
ecrevisse; crawfish; crawdad; crayfish
Hypernyms ("crawfish" is a kind of...):
shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))
Holonyms ("crawfish" is a part of...):
ecrevisse; Old World crayfish (small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America)
American crayfish (common large crayfishes of eastern North America)
Meaning:
Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
crawdaddy; crawdad; crawfish; crayfish
Hypernyms ("crawfish" is a kind of...):
decapod; decapod crustacean (crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crawfish"):
ecrevisse; Old World crayfish (small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America)
American crayfish (common large crayfishes of eastern North America)
Holonyms ("crawfish" is a member of...):
Astacidae; Astacura; family Astacidae (crayfish)
Meaning:
Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
sea crawfish; spiny lobster; langouste; rock lobster; crawfish; crayfish
Hypernyms ("crawfish" is a kind of...):
lobster (any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae)
Meronyms (parts of "crawfish"):
crayfish; langouste; rock lobster; spiny lobster (warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California)
Holonyms ("crawfish" is a member of...):
genus Palinurus; Palinurus (type genus of the family Palinuridae)
• CRAWFISH (verb)
Meaning:
Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
pull in one's horns; crawfish out; crawfish; back away; back out; retreat; pull back; withdraw
Context examples:
We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him / He backed out of his earlier promise / The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
