Crayfish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRAYFISH in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a large edible freshwater decapod crustacean, also CRAWFISH
• a nocturnal freshwater crustacean that resembles a small lobster and inhabits streams and rivers.
• edible shellfish like a lobster
• Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.
• See Crawfish.
• warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
• tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
• small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
• large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a crustacean

Words related to CRAYFISH

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Words that contain CRAYFISH

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How to use CRAYFISH in a sentence

• A recipe tells us, that crayfish can be preserved several days in baskets with fresh grass, such as the nettle, or in a bucket with about three-eighths of an inch of water.
• Crayfish should be thrown into boiling water, to which has been added a good seasoning of salt and a little vinegar.
• The crayfish crawl into the nets to feed, and are hauled up by the dozen.
• Around these giants, like a democracy accustomed to endure from time to time the attack of the strong, crayfish and shrimps were swimming in shoals.
• From the two sides of the prow dangled a double row of cray-fish carved with the innocent prolixity of medieval imagination.
• My curiosity was aroused, and I explored several of the holes, finding in each a good-sized crayfish, which Prof.
• The river of Isfahan produces a kind of crayfish, which is taken in the bushes along its banks, and is very delicate eating.
• We examine a lobster and a cray-fish, and a black beetle.
• We examine a lobster and a crayfish, and a black beetle.
• A new hotel had been erected where the old Crayfish Inn had once stood.
• The death of such a body corporate as the crayfish is due to the social condition becoming more complex than there is memory of past experience to deal with.
• The crayfish dies as a state dies, and all states that we have heard of die sooner or later.
• When Professor Huxley can find a city that will last for ever, he may wonder that a crayfish does not last for ever.
• The chief were wine, coal, timber, mineral tar, fertilizers and lobsters and crayfish.
• This island swarmed with crayfish, of a size sufficient to satisfy four hungry men at dinner.
• Strangely enough, too, these crayfish, when they found themselves cut off from their natural retreats, climbed up trees, and there concealed themselves in the branches.
• Here he lived alone, supporting himself on fish and crayfish.
• After listening to his talk for some time, he told him to pull up the rod which he had baited for crayfish, and after he had eaten, they might discuss the matter further.
• The roots were firmly fixed in the sand and mud, so that the crayfish had to work for seven whole days before he could complete his task.
• He did not know that he had passed so many days in the form of a crayfish, and supposed that he had only spent a few hours in the water.
• At last the woman wishes to be God, and the crayfish sends the foolish couple back to their poverty.
• The fishing did not take five minutes, for the crayfish were swarming in the creek.
• A smoking roast joint, white wine, crayfish and fresh-gathered cherries.
• A smoking roast joint, white wine, crayfish, and fresh-gathered cherries.
• And lying still or crawling slowly among the stones were many crayfish.
• And Lew would slip the coffee-pot into the water and move it cautiously up to the crayfish, ready for a final, quick scoop.
• A second after Lew tried for the crayfish not a living thing was visible.
• Then they buckled on their bait boxes, now bulging with worms and crayfish.
• These receptacles are filled with dried and salted grasshoppers, crabs, crayfish, and locusts, which destroy the harvests.
• They have also small hoop nets, in which they catch lobsters, and sea crayfish.

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