crayfish
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1. large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | lobster, |
| definition | : | any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster, |
| definition | : | warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California (noun.food) |
2. small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | decapod, decapod crustacean, |
| definition | : | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | american crayfish, |
| definition | : | common large crayfishes of eastern North America (noun.animal) |
3. tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | shellfish, |
| definition | : | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) (noun.food) |
| part meronym | : | american crayfish, |
| definition | : | common large crayfishes of eastern North America (noun.animal) |
4. warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | shellfish, |
| definition | : | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) (noun.food) |
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