crawfish

English Thesaurus

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)

member meronym	:	genus palinurus, palinurus,
definition	:	type genus of the family Palinuridae (noun.animal)

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	:	ecrevisse, old world crayfish,
definition	:	small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	american crayfish,
definition	:	common large crayfishes of eastern North America (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	astacidae, astacura, family astacidae,
definition	:	crayfish (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	:	ecrevisse, old world crayfish,
definition	:	small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America (noun.animal)

part meronym	:	american crayfish,
definition	:	common large crayfishes of eastern North America (noun.animal)

4. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity (verb.communication)

verb group	:	draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw,
definition	:	pull back or move away or backward (verb.motion)

derivation	:	withdrawal,
definition	:	the act of withdrawing (noun.act)

derivation	:	withdrawer,
definition	:	a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled (noun.person)

derivation	:	withdrawer,
definition	:	a contestant who withdraws from competition (noun.person)

derivation	:	withdrawal,
definition	:	the act of withdrawing (noun.act)

derivation	:	withdrawer,
definition	:	a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled (noun.person)

derivation	:	withdrawer,
definition	:	a contestant who withdraws from competition (noun.person)