Crawfish in a sentence as a noun

That way there is less chance of your corpse being eaten by crawfish and crabs and birds.

We'll boil up some crawfish, break them in half, eat the meat, suck the head, chuck it, do it again.

You've tried "water", but fish and crawfish just isn't enugh, is it? You've tried "plants", but trees and flowers just grow, they don't expand, evolve.

Kids can build damns, dig for crawfish, catch frogs, pan for gold, make waterwheels, and so on. The kids can camp in the backyard, complete with a campfire.

But if you could pick up 150 crawfish in an hour with just your hands, think of what a lighted trap could do overnight.

And then there are crawfish, which are intermediate in size. Indeed, smaller than some southeastern cockroaches.

If you've ever handled bugs like scorpions or larger arthropods, they're remarkably similar to crawfish or crabs. They're virtually the same thing.

Crawfish in a sentence as a verb

Aren’t crustaceans, particularly crawfish and the like, the bugs of the sea? They certainly look and behave like insects, scavenging the ocean floor.

The FBI is never going to arrest people for the felony of improper paperwork on their crawfish fishing business based on their DNA.

Right now spicy crawfish boils are fashionable in China, and I'm pretty sure the other East/Southeast Asian countries like crawfish also. Just like with jellyfish.

Obviously, the case mentioned in the article is that there is an inherent property of the crawfish that modulates the effect of noise, which blurs this line.

Org/wiki/crayfish#Etymology For what it's worth, it is also spelled, not just pronounced, "crawfish" in Texas and Louisiana.

In the end it all comes down to how to stretch one chicken/pig/deer/duck/rabbit/turtle/catfish/basket of crawfish/whatever into a week of food when all you really have to eat is a huge pot of long-grain rice that you don't have time to fuss over. It's culinary alchemy.

However, my definition of insects includes crawfish, lobster, urchins etc. They are fancy insects, but I do not see much difference between most seafood and bugs, except the size maybe.

Crawfish definitions

noun

tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

See also: crayfish crawdad ecrevisse

noun

small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

See also: crayfish crawdad crawdaddy

noun

large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

See also: langouste crayfish

verb

make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "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"

See also: retreat withdraw