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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)

  1. Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
    1. (New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
  3. (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)

  1. to catch crayfish
  2. 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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tilapia

English

Etymology

New Latin from the genus Tilapia. A latinization of the Tswana word tlhapi (fish).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /t??l??pi?/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??l??pi?/, /t??læpi?/
  • Rhymes: -??pi?, -æpi?

Noun

tilapia (plural tilapias or tilapia)

  1. Any of various edible fish, of the genus Tilapia, native to Africa and the Middle East but naturalized worldwide.
    • 2006, Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, “Bottom of the World”:
      Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron
      On tilapia fishcakes and fried black swan.

Synonyms

  • St. Peter's fish

Translations


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ti?la.p?a/

Noun

tilapia f

  1. tilapia

Declension


Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

tilapia f (plural tilapias)

  1. tilapia

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