Wiktionary
n. (plural of crayfish English)
WordNet
See crayfish
n. warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster]
tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn: crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse]
small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster [syn: crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy]
large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, sea crawfish]
[also: crayfishes (pl)]
Usage examples of "crayfishes".
Of crayfishes also here wanted no plenty, and they of exceeding bigness, one whereof was sufficient for four hungry stomachs at a dinner, being also very good and restoring meat, whereof we had experience: and they dig themselves holes in the earth like coneys.