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langoustine
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French langoustine
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l????sti?n/, /?læ???sti?n/
Noun
langoustine (plural langoustines)
- A small edible European orange-pink lobster, Nephrops norvegicus
Synonyms
- (Nephrops norvegicus): Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, scampi
Translations
See also
- scampi
Anagrams
- angustoline
French
Etymology
langouste +? ine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??.?us.tin/
Noun
langoustine f (plural langoustines)
- Any of a number of crustaceans, especially the Norway lobster.
See also
- écrevisse f
- homard m
Further reading
- “langoustine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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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