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crayfish
crayfish is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, 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. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, 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.
- 2noun
See Crawfish.
- 3noun
large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- 4noun
small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
- 5noun
tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
- 6noun
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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