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crayfish
English
Alternative forms
- crawfish; craifish (obsolete), crafish, crefish (obsolete); crevis, crevice, crevyssh (obsolete)
Etymology
Alteration (by folk etymology, influenced by fish) of Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice ("crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse), from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gereb?- (“to scratch, crawl”). Akin to Old High German krebiz ("edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German Krebs (“crab”)), Middle Low German kr?vet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”). More at crab.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?e??f??/
Noun
crayfish (plural crayfishes or crayfish)
- Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
- (New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
- (Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family.
Usage notes
The term crayfish predominates in the region of New England and in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In much of the United States—in the South, especially in Louisiana and Texas; in the Midwest and in the West—crawfish predominates. In a belt stretching across Kentucky through Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and in Oregon and northern California, the term crawdad predominates.
Synonyms
- (freshwater crustaceans): crawdad, crawldad, crawfish, crawlfish, mudbug, yabby (Australia)
Derived terms
- crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)
Translations
Verb
crayfish (third-person singular simple present crayfishes, present participle crayfishing, simple past and past participle crayfished)
- to catch crayfish
- Alternative form of crawfish (to backpedal, desert, or withdraw)
Translations
See also
- lobster
- prawn
- shrimp
- yabby
References
Further reading
- crayfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- crayfish at OneLook Dictionary Search
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gilgie
English
Alternative forms
- jilgie
Etymology
Nyunga jilgi
Noun
gilgie (plural gilgies)
- Cherax quinquecarinatus, a small freshwater crayfish endemic to the south-west corner of Australia.
See also
- marron
- yabby, yabbie
Further reading
- Cherax quinquecarinatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cherax quinquecarinatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Cherax quinquecarinatus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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- what do gilles eat
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