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crayfish
noun
cray·fish
ˈkrā-ˌfish 
1
: any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans (especially families Astacidea, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae) resembling the lobster but usually much smaller
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Olive green can also mimic a crayfish or tiny madtom catfish.
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Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
The tail of a crayfish contains less ionic lithium than its gastrointestinal tract, gills, and hepatopancreas.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
While in that part of the state, Hendricks donned a wetsuit and went underwater to capture life in the Savage River — a brook trout foraging among boulders for aquatic insects; minnows devouring a caterpillar; a wood turtle, a crayfish and the large salamander known as the Eastern hellbender.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
In brown or rusty orange, a curly-tail grub becomes a crayfish when slowly hopped across the bottom.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
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Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
The tail of a crayfish contains less ionic lithium than its gastrointestinal tract, gills, and hepatopancreas.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
While in that part of the state, Hendricks donned a wetsuit and went underwater to capture life in the Savage River — a brook trout foraging among boulders for aquatic insects; minnows devouring a caterpillar; a wood turtle, a crayfish and the large salamander known as the Eastern hellbender.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
In brown or rusty orange, a curly-tail grub becomes a crayfish when slowly hopped across the bottom.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
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crayfish
noun
cray·fish
ˈkrā-ˌfish
1
: any of numerous freshwater crustaceans that are related to but usually much smaller than the lobster
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