4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Crawfish \Craw"fish`\ (kr[add]"f[i^]sh`), Crayfish \Cray"fish`\ (kr[=a]"f[i^]sh`), n.; pl. {-fishes} or {-fish}. [Corrupted fr. OE. crevis, creves, OF. crevice, F. ['e]crevisse, fr. OHG. krebiz crab, G. krebs. See {Crab}. The ending -fish arose from confusion with E. fish.] (Zool.) Any decapod crustacean of the family {Astacid[ae]} (genera {Cambarus} and {Cambarus}), 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}. Syn: crawdad, crawdaddy. [1913 Webster] 2. tiny lobsterlike crustaceans usually boiled briefly. Syn: crawdad, ecrevisse. [WordNet 1.5] 3. a large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters. Syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea crawfish. [WordNet 1.5] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Crayfish \Cray"fish\ (kr[=a]"f[i^]sh), n. (Zool.) See {Crawfish}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: crayfish n 1: 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}] 2: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn: {crawfish}, {crawdad}, {ecrevisse}] 3: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster [syn: {crawfish}, {crawdad}, {crawdaddy}] 4: 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)] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible. In this small fish I take it that human wisdom is admirably figured and symbolized; for whereas the crayfish doth move only backward, and can have only retrospection, seeing naught but the perils already passed, so the wisdom of man doth not enable him to avoid the follies that beset his course, but only to apprehend their nature afterward. Sir James Merivale
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