crawfish

Noun
  1. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly (synset 107804861)
    is a type of: shellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
    is a part of:
    same as: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse
  2. Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster (synset 101987769)
    is a type of: decapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
    subtypes:
    belongs to: astacidae, astacura, family astacidae - crayfish
    same as: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish
  3. Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters (synset 101987336)
    is a type of: lobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
    belongs to: genus palinurus, palinurus - type genus of the family Palinuridae
    has: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster - warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
    same as: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster
Verb
  1. Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity (synset 200801045)
    "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"
    same as: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw
    verb group: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw - pull back or move away or backward

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