crawfish

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
• Syn:
crayfish, crawdad, ecrevisse
• Hypernyms:
shellfish
• Part Holonyms:
American crayfish, Old World crayfish, ecrevisse
2. small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
• Syn:
crayfish, crawdad, crawdaddy
• Hypernyms:
decapod crustacean, decapod
• Hyponyms:
Old World crayfish, ecrevisse, American crayfish
• Member Holonyms:
Astacidae, family Astacidae, Astacura
3. 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
• Hypernyms:
lobster
• Member Holonyms:
Palinurus, genus Palinurus
• Part Meronyms:
spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish

II - verb

make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- 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
• Syn:
retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish out,
pull in one's horns, withdraw
• Derivationally related forms:
withdrawer (for: withdraw), withdrawal (for: withdraw)
• Verb Group:
withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede,
pull back, retire, move back
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy, ecrevisse, retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw