crayfish

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Soon, all will be crayfish! I, for one...

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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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noun

warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

noun

tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

noun

small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crayfish.

noun

warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

noun

tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

noun

small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

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

Example sentences

Soon, all will be crayfish! I, for one...

He dangled an old crayfish head, long since hollowed out, at the end of a long string-like tentacle, luring the stupid little fish into his lair . .

> Belgian law prohibits the poisoning of the crayfish, which was a method of control used in Spain. Ah.

In Mahasoa, nearly everyone participates in the crayfish economy in one way or another. People use them to fatten up pigs and chickens, or eat them with rice'

I imagine it's fairly uncommon for someone to arrange seats to attend a crayfish party with their rapist immediately after they've been raped.

>>> Many types of aquatic animals commonly referred to as "fish" are not fish in the sense given above; examples include shellfish, cuttlefish, starfish, crayfish and jellyfish. >>The End

I would say crayfish just as it's spelled. I have no idea what it is in Acadian French I'm not French but I know a lot of Acadian people. It would be funny if the name came from little lobster, maybe "petite homard"? Not even close to crayfish.

That's assuming one crayfish, multiplying with an average litter of ten, producing a new generation every 12 hours, over a period of three days.

I remember watching a segment about a high school science class in Oregon who threw imported crayfish into a local stream because they didn't believe in killing, and wanted the crayfish to be free. Well, the non-local crayfish started killing off the local crayfish.

I played with neighborhood kids doing hide & seek, soccer, baseball, ditch digging, crayfish-fishing, arcade, nintendo, bookstore, etc. Generations of kids grew up that way and they all turned out fine.

Also: Aardin immediately invited Assange to a crayfish party after she was allegedly raped. That's really odd behaviour, especially from a well known feminist.

> Also: Aardin immediately invited Assange to a crayfish party after she was allegedly raped. That's really odd behaviour, especially from a well known feminist.

He explained that there's a crayfish factory owned by a South African company on the island that employs roughly half of the villagers. The factory is powered by diesel generators and for their exclusive deal with the islanders, the generators power the village.