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Meanings of crawfish in English

Portuguese
lagosta
Wikidata

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

        lagosta
        Portuguese
        lagostas
        Catalan
        cranc de mar
        Spanish
        cangrejo de río
        Wikidata

        Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.

              lagostas
              Portuguese
              decorrer
              Catalan
              retirar-se
              Spanish
              retirarse

              Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity.

                  decorrer
                  Usage of crawfish in English
                  1
                  If you want to crawfish out of a fair bargain, all right.
                  Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
                  2
                  That is a sea crawfish, quite as good eating as a lobster.
                  Masterman Ready
                  3
                  I eyed the plate of crawfish in front of me with dismay.
                  Succubi like it hot
                  4
                  But it is his crawfish bisque that demands the most attention.
                  Reuters
                  5
                  Experiments with crawfish prove that they are able to learn simple labyrinth habits.
                  Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 / Containing Sixteen Exp...
                  6
                  He spied the crawfish and formed a plan to catch him.
                  Myths and Legends of the Sioux
                  7
                  He sank and shot backward like a great lean crawfish, under the fence.
                  More Than Human
                  8
                  Gather up the crawfish, and throw 'em out of the windows.
                  Frank Merriwell's Chums
                  9
                  Etheridge spoke to the pool-shooting, catfish-gutting, crawfish-sucking homegirl I was trying to squelch.
                  Lit: a memoir
                  10
                  He was as aggressive as a crawfish and as magnetic as a mummy.
                  Sermons on Biblical Characters
                  11
                  Toward this bush he crept, but like a crawfish, feet foremost.
                  The Delight Makers
                  12
                  The peppery-spicy aroma of crawfish bisque permeated the diner, making Gabby's stomach growl.
                  Dead air
                  13
                  I wouldn't trust Ben Carson to operate on a crawfish head.
                  Ebony
                  14
                  The spicy fragrance of crawfish gumbo and dirty rice steamed through the house.
                  Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles
                  15
                  In addition to abalone's the Hof Brau makes a specialty of little Oregon crawfish.
                  Bohemian San Francisco / Its restaurants and their most famous r...
                  16
                  A crawfish showed its head, and he drove it away.
                  Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country
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