| crawfish | | |
| n. (food) | 1. crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly. |
| ~ old world crayfish, ecrevisse | small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America. |
| ~ american crayfish | common large crayfishes of eastern North America. |
| ~ shellfish | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean). |
| n. (animal) | 2. crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish | small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster. |
| ~ decapod, decapod crustacean | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax. |
| ~ astacidae, astacura, family astacidae | crayfish. |
| ~ old world crayfish, ecrevisse | small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America. |
| ~ american crayfish | common large crayfishes of eastern North America. |
| n. (animal) | 3. crawfish, crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters. |
| ~ lobster | any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae. |
| ~ genus palinurus, palinurus | type genus of the family Palinuridae. |
| ~ crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster | warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California. |
| v. (communication) | 4. back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw | make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity.; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" |
| ~ draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retreat, withdraw, retire | pull back or move away or backward.; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" |
| prawn | | |
| n. (food) | 1. prawn, shrimp | any of various edible decapod crustaceans. |
| ~ shrimp | small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible. |
| ~ shrimp cocktail | a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce. |
| ~ seafood | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc. |
| ~ river prawn | large Australian prawn. |
| n. (animal) | 2. prawn | shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible. |
| ~ decapod, decapod crustacean | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax. |
| ~ genus palaemon, palaemon | type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus. |
| ~ long-clawed prawn, palaemon australis, river prawn | large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers. |
| v. (contact) | 3. prawn | fish for prawns. |
| ~ fish | catch or try to catch fish or shellfish.; "I like to go fishing on weekends" |
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