The verb" to crawfish" is unknown even to slang dictionaries, although it must derive from the crawfish, or crayfish, a reshwater crustacean. 因为即便是在俚语词典中,也看不到把"龙虾"作动词的用法。但可以肯定的是,这种用法跟那淡水壳类动物多少有点渊源。
Large bodies of water will be occupied not only by frogs but larger aquatic animals such as Long-necked Tortoises and Freshwater Yabbies or Crayfish. 水的大身体将被青蛙但是更大的水动物占据例如不仅长-压缩的龟和淡水小螫虾或喇蛄。
On their seats were boxed dinners containing schnapps, beer, pickled herring, new potatoes, goose, crayfish, red cabbage, brussels sprouts, and saffron buns. 每个人的座位都有餐盒,裡面有香甜酒、酒、鲱鱼、年收成的马鈴薯、水螯虾、色卷心菜、芽甘藍及番红花面包。
crayfish crayfishes
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warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
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tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
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small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
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large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
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Crayfish \Cray"fish\ (kr[=a]"f[i^]sh), n. (Zo["o]l.) See {Crawfish}.
Crawfish \Craw"fish`\ (kr[add]"f[i^]sh`), Crayfish \Cray"fish`\ (kr[=a]"f[i^]sh`), n.; pl. {-fishes} or {-fish}. [Corrupted fr. OE. crevis, creves, OF. crevice, F. ['e]crevisse, fr. OHG. krebiz crab, G. krebs. See {Crab}. The ending -fish arose from confusion with E. fish.] (Zo["o]l.) Any decapod crustacean of the family {Astacid[ae]} (genera {Cambarus} and {Cambarus}), resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus {Cambarus}. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is {Cambarus pellucidus}. The common European species is {Astacus fluviatilis}.
Syn: crawdad, crawdaddy.
2. tiny lobsterlike crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
Syn: crawdad, ecrevisse. [WordNet 1.5]
3. a large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.
But, Mr. Doja says, there's also growing interest from more off-beat enterprises, such as a fresh crayfish company in Duluth that ships to Sweden.
Ditto people with crayfish that can scoot like Secretariat.
But raising the snails in water that had been exposed to crayfish who were hunting and eating snails resulted in snails that grew larger and lived longer, they reported.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Last year the United States sold $17 million worth of crayfish to Sweden, up from $6 million in 1988, says the Agriculture Department.
The number of leeches, crayfish and bottom-dwelling Iowa darter fish are rising steadily as the water acidity drops, the Ontario biologists report in a recent issue of the British journal Nature.
Saltwater crayfish is also known as crawfish, spiny lobster or langouste.