Crayfish vs. Lobster

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.

Lobsteradjective

red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

Lobsternoun

A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.

Lobsternoun

A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.

Lobsternoun

A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).

Lobsternoun

(slang) An Australian twenty dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

Lobsterverb

To fish for lobsters.

Lobsternoun

Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (Homarus Americanus), and the European lobster (Homarus vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.

Lobsternoun

As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable person.

Lobsternoun

flesh of a lobster

Lobsternoun

any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae

Lobster

Lobsters are a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homeridae) of large marine crustaceans. Lobsters have long bodies with muscular tails, and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor.