Noun crawfish has 3 senses
- crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
--1 is a kind of shellfish
--1 is a part of American crayfish; Old World crayfish, ecrevisse
- crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
--2 is a kind of decapod crustacean, decapod
--2 is a member of Astacidae, family Astacidae, Astacura
--2 has particulars: Old World crayfish, ecrevisse; American crayfish
- spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
--3 is a kind of lobster
--3 is a member of Palinurus, genus Palinurus
--3 has parts: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish
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Verb crawfish has 1 sense
- retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, 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"
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