'-fishes' definitions:
Definition of '-fishes'
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- Crawfish \Craw"fish`\ (kr[add]"f[i^]sh`), Crayfish \Cray"fish`\ (kr[=a]"f[i^]sh`), n.; pl. -fishes or -fish. [Corrupted fr. OE. crevis, creves, OF. crevice, F. ['e]crevisse, fr. OHG. krebiz crab, G. krebs. See Crab. The ending -fish arose from confusion with E. fish.] (Zool.) Any decapod crustacean of the family Astacid[ae] (genera Cambarus and Cambarus), resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.
- Syn: crawdad, crawdaddy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. tiny lobsterlike crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
- Syn: crawdad, ecrevisse. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. a large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.
- Syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea crawfish. [WordNet 1.5]
Words containing '-fishes'
- -fish,
- Fish,
- Fished,
- Fishes,
- Fishful,
- Fishing,
- fish for,
- Age of Fishes,
- Angel fish,
- Balance fish,
- Band fish,
- Banner fish,
- Barber fish,
- Basket fish,
- Bellows fish,
- Bony fish,
- Bottle fish,
- Bur fish,
- Butterfly fish,
- Cigar fish,
- Cobbler fish,
- Coffer fish,
- Coral fish,
- Cuckoo fish,
- Date fish,
- Doctor fish,
- Dollar fish,
- Dragon fish,
- Electrical fish,
- Elephant fish,
- Emerald fish,
- Fiddle fish,
- Fighting fish,
- Fish Hawk,
- Fish ball,
- Fish bar,
- Fish beam,
- Fish crow,
- Fish culture,
- Fish davit,
- Fish day,
- Fish duck,
- Fish fall,
- Fish garth,
- Fish glue,
- Fish joint,
- Fish kettle,
- Fish ladder,
- Fish line,
- Fish louse,
- Fish maw,
- Fish meal,
- Fish oil,
- Fish owl,
- Fish plate,
- Fish pot,
- Fish pound,
- Fish slice,
- Fish slide,
- Fish sound,
- Fish story,
- Fish strainer,
- Fish torpedo,
- Fish trowel,
- Fish wear,
- Fish weir,
- Fishing fly,
- Fishing line,
- Fishing net,
- Fishing rod,
- Fishing smack,
- Fishing tackle,
- Fishing tube,
- Fly fishing,
- Flying fish,
- Garter fish,
- Gorge fishing,
- Ground fish,
- Hammer fish,
- Harvest fish,
- Hedgehog fish,
- Human fish,
- Lance fish,
- Land fish,
- Mango fish,
- Margate fish,
- Mermaid fish,
- Musical fish,
- Mutton fish,
- Paradise fish,
- Parrot fish,
- Peacock fish,
- Pelican fish,
- Peter's fish,
- Pilot fish,
- Porcupine fish,
- Pudding fish,
- Rabbit fish,
- Rapier fish,
- Razor fish,
- Ribbon fish,
- Rudder fish,
- Saber fish,
- Sabre fish,
- Sacred fish,
- Salt fish,
- Scabbard fish,
- Scarlet fish,
- Serpent fish,
- Singing fish,
- Soldier fish,
- Southern Fish,
- Spillet fishing,
- Spilliard fishing,
- Squirrel fish,
- Strawberry fish,
- Sucker fish,
- Sucking fish,
- Suleah fish,
- Surf fish,
- Surgeon fish,
- Tadpole fish,
- Tamarind fish,
- Telescope fish,
- To fish the anchor,
- Tobias fish,
- Tree fish,
- Trigger fish,
- Trumpet fish,
- Unicorn fish,
- Urchin fish,
- Viper fish,
- Viviparous fish,
- Walking fish,
- Wolf fish,
- anemone fish,
- angel fishes,
- angler fish,
- ball fish,
- balloon fish,
- barrel fish,
- big fish,
- blennioid fish,
- bottom fish,
- brook fish,
- buffalo fish,
- bultow fishing,
- carangid fish,
- cartilaginous fish,
- characin fish,
- cichlid fish,
- clinid fish,
- clupeid fish,
- cold fish,
- convict fish,
- coral fishes,
- crucifix fish,
- cutlass fish,
- cyprinid fish,
- cypriniform fish,
- fish and chips,
- fish bowl,
- fish cake,
- fish chowder,
- fish doctor,
- fish eagle,
- fish family,
- fish farm,
- fish filet,
- fish fillet,
- fish finger,
- fish fly,
- fish fry,
- fish fuddle,
- fish genus,
- fish geranium,
- fish knife,
- fish loaf,
- fish lure,
- fish mousse,
- fish out of water,
- fish scale,
- fish species,
- fish steak,
- fish stew,
- fish stick,
- fish tank,
- fishing boat,
- fishing eagle,
- fishing expedition,
- fishing gear,
- fishing licence,
- fishing license,
- fishing permit,
- fishing pole,
- fishing rig,
- fishing season,
- fishing the art of,
- fishing vessel,
- fishing worm,
- flame fish,
- flashlight fish,
- food fish,
- fresh fish,
- freshwater fish,
- frost fish,
- gadoid fish,
- game fish,
- ganoid fish,
- gefilte fish,
- go fish,
- golden fish,
- gunnel fish,
- handsaw fish,
- jawless fish,
- kettle of fish,
- lancet fish,
- lizard fish,
- lookdown fish,
- may fish,
- net fish,
- odd fish,
- onion fish,
- oyster fish,
- percoid fish,
- pisces the fishes,
- plectognath fish,
- poeciliid fish,
- polly fish,
- poor fish,
- porcupine fishes,
- rainbow fish,
- rattail fish,
- rough fish,
- saltwater fish,
- sargassum fish,
- sciaenid fish,
- scombroid fish,
- scorpaenid fish,
- scorpaenoid fish,
- scorpion fish,
- sergeant fish,
- serranid fish,
- silurid fish,
- siluriform fish,
- skillet fish,
- snipe fish,
- sparid fish,
- sport fish,
- striped fish,
- stromateid fish,
- surf fishing,
- teleost fish,
- trawl fishing,
- tuna fish,
- walking fishes,
- white fish,
- worm fish,
- young fish,
- Fish Hawk, FL,
- Fish-bellied,
- Fish-block,
- Fish-tackle,
- Fish-tail,
- Fly-fish,
- Half-fish,
- Neither fish nor flesh,
- Neither fish nor fowl,
- Saint Peter's fish,
- Sea woodcock fish,
- St Peter's fish,
- biplane flying fish,
- black rudder fish,
- clown anemone fish,
- creole-fish,
- doctor-fish,
- fine kettle of fish,
- fish house punch,
- fish-fly,
- fish-worship,
- fly-fishing,
- jackknife-fish,
- monoplane flying fish,
- oyster-fish,
- pearl-fish,
- pork-fish,
- puff-fish,
- razor-fish,
- shrimp-fish,
- snake-fish,
- soldier-fish,
- still-fish,
- thread-fish,
- tongue-fish,
- tuna fish salad,
- Fish-tail burner,
- Fish-tail propeller,
- Tobacco-pipe fish,
- fish-liver oil,
- lobe-finned fish,
- long-line fishing,
- rat-tail fish,
- soft-finned fish,
- spiny-finned fish,
- us fish and wildlife service,
- four-wing flying fish,
- two-wing flying fish,
- united states fish and wildlife service