| NOUN | food | crawfish, crayfish, crawdad, ecrevisse | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly |
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| animal | crawfish, crayfish, crawdad, crawdaddy | small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | |
| animal | crawfish, spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | |
| VERB | communication | crawfish, retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw | make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity |
| Sounds | krao'fih.sh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly. | |
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| Synonyms | crayfish, crawdad, ecrevisse | |
| Part of | American crayfish | Common large crayfishes of eastern North America |
| Old World crayfish, ecrevisse | small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | |
| Broader | shellfish | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) |
| Spanish | cámbaro, cangrejo de mar, cangrejo de río | |
| Catalan | cranc de mar | |
| Meaning | small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster. | |
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| Synonyms | crayfish, crawdad, crawdaddy | |
| Member of | Astacidae, family Astacidae, Astacura | crayfish |
| Narrower | American crayfish | Common large crayfishes of eastern North America |
| Old World crayfish, ecrevisse | small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | |
| Broader | decapod crustacean, decapod | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax |
| Spanish | cangrejo de río, cangrejo | |
| Catalan | cranc de riu | |
| Meaning | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters. | |
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| Synonyms | spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea crawfish | |
| Member of | Palinurus, genus Palinurus | type genus of the family Palinuridae |
| Parts | spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish | warm-water lobsters without claws |
| Broader | lobster | Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families ... / families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae |
| Spanish | bogavante, cámbaro, langosta | |
| Catalan | llagosta | |
| Meaning | make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him" | |
| Synonyms | retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw | |
| Similar to | withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back | pull back or move away or backward |
| Spanish | recular, retirarse, retirar, suprimir | |
| Catalan | recular, retirar-se, retirar, suprimir | |
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