Crayfish vs. Dogfish

Crayfishnoun

Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.

Crayfishnoun

A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.

Crayfishnoun

A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).

Crayfishverb

(to backpedal, desert, or withdraw)

Crayfishnoun

See Crawfish.

Crayfishnoun

warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California

Crayfishnoun

tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

Crayfishnoun

small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

Crayfishnoun

large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

Crayfish

Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters (to which they are related). In some parts of the United States, they are also known as crawfish, craydids, crawdaddies, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, rock lobsters, mudbugs, or yabbies.

Dogfishnoun

Any of various small sharks

Dogfishnoun

especially those from the family Squalidae

Dogfishnoun

a catshark, any shark from family Scyliorhinidae

Dogfishnoun

a kitefin shark, any shark from family Dalatiidae

Dogfishnoun

(UK) Scyliorhinus canicula or Scyliorhinus stellaris

Dogfishnoun

(Azores Is.) Scyliorhinus canicula

Dogfishnoun

(Canada) Squalus suckleyi

Dogfishnoun

(Bermuda) Mustelus canis

Dogfishnoun

(Barbados) Bodianus rufus

Dogfishnoun

(Guyana) Ginglymostoma cirratum or Mustelus canis

Dogfishnoun

Ginglymostoma cirratum

Dogfishnoun

(Namibia) Squalus acanthias, Squalus blainville, Squalus megalops, or Squalus mitsukurii

Dogfishnoun

(US) The bowfin, Amia calva.

Dogfishnoun

A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

Dogfishnoun

The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.

Dogfishnoun

The burbot of Lake Erie.

Dogfishnoun

primitive long-bodies carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America

Dogfishnoun

any of several small sharks

Dogfishnoun

a small sand-coloured bottom-dwelling shark with a long tail, common on European coasts.

Dogfishnoun

a small shark that resembles or is related to the dogfish, sometimes caught for food.