Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crayfish

4 senses of crayfish

Sense 1
spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish -- (warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California)
       => shellfish -- (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

Sense 2
crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse -- (tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly)
       => shellfish -- (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

Sense 3
crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy -- (small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster)
       => decapod crustacean, decapod -- (crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax)

Sense 4
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)
       => lobster -- (any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae)