| NOUN | food | crayfish, spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster | warm-water lobsters without claws |
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| food | crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | |
| animal | crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy | small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | |
| animal | crayfish, spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
| Sounds | krey'fihsh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California. | |
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| Synonyms | spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster | |
| Part of | spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
| Broader | shellfish | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) |
| Spanish | langosta | |
| Catalan | llagosta | |
| Meaning | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly. | |
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| Synonyms | crawfish, 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 | crawfish, 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, crawfish, 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 | |
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