Meaning

1 senses

  1. Synonym of crayfish.

More definitions
  • small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  • tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Do you know what crawdads are?

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Origin

Alteration of US and British dialectal crawdab (“crayfish”).

Alteration of US and British dialectal crawdab (“crayfish”).

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Forms

plural: crawdads
Singularcrawdad
Pluralcrawdads

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
crayfish
freshwater crustaceans:crawldadcrawfishcrawlfishmudbugyabby
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcrawdaddy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
craterB2craveC1cravingC1crawlB2crayfish

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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