crawfish
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- noun
- /ˈkrɔːfɪʃ/
- US
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cangrejo de río
- Freshly caught crawfish are often seasoned and used in various delicious dishes.
- red crawfish
- swamp crawfish
- Louisiana crawfish
My thing is, I grew up on crawfish boils.
- My thing is, I grew up on crawfish boils.
- You're going to give up meat and crawfish and, and you're going to give up fish.
- You know how to eat every single piece of the pig in a boucherie or whatever, or get crawfish out of the swamp.
- The one of them ditch crawfish right out the damn ditch bank.
- Kind of smells like a like a crawfish foil, doesn't it?
- He did bite the crawfish that we used earlier.
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Well, maybe he ate some bad crawfish.
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The agency has set no limit on the amount of red swamp crawfish that can be harvested.
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"Few people in the United States realize that crawfish are good to eat."
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After processing, the crawfish must be stored in a refrigerator or on ice.
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The primary markets for Louisiana crawfish are in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region.
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We got crawfish, shrimp, oysters, sweet potato fries.
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A small group of fishermen harvested crawfish and sold them to consumers.
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She earned pocket change foraging for crawfish and selling them as bait.
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The published proceedings indicate the crawfish issues that concerned ecologists, agronomists, and aquaculturists at that time.
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As Comeaux discovered, by the 1880s a nascent commercial crawfish industry had emerged in Louisiana.
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Synonyms
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Sea animals with a shell, like shrimp or oysters
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A small freshwater animal like a tiny lobster that lives in creeks
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A small fresh water animal like a tiny lobster with claws that lives in rivers and streams
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A small freshwater animal like a tiny lobster
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A small fresh water animal like a tiny lobster that people eat in French cooking
Large freshwater animal like a small lobster from eastern North America that lives in rivers and streams
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Etymology
Crawfish is a regional form of crayfish, a word that came into English from an old French name for the same animal. It names a small, lobster-like creature people often eat, especially in places like Louisiana.