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crayfish

[krey-fish] / ˈkreɪˌfɪʃ /


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We see Adrian at the film’s beginning as a small child, catching crayfish and other underwater creatures.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

This includes shellfish delicacies such as prawns, lobsters, crabs and crayfish that we both catch wild and farm.

From Science Daily Nov. 26, 2024

As with humans, crayfish and capybaras, if you look you’ll find the biochemical markers of the poor bees’ cognitive change.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2024

But there is also a lot we don’t know, including about decapod crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, and shrimp.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2024

“See what the waves brought to the shore last night. Catch some crayfish, ashaageshinh, watch out for their claws. I don’t mind helping.”

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

You can tuck up the sleeves, and we will catch crayfishes again.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile

Some of the living crayfishes should be established in conditions as natural as possible i.e. in an inch or so of fresh water, with rocks, weeds, etc., and left undisturbed.

From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Lucas, Frederic

And yet, objectively considered, there is no reason to be less disgusted at the eating of crayfishes than when some other kind of animal is eaten in the same manner.

From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden

Nothing could be seen, however, but an unusual number of prawns or crayfishes, into which they supposed the infant had been changed.

From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George

Ulenspiegel, wishing to know why he was mimicking the crayfishes in this fashion, planting himself before him and smiling, jumped in step with him.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de




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