crawfish
noun
crawfishes
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pluralof crawfish.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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If during his infancy he has seen without fear frogs, serpents, crawfishes, he will, when grown up, see without shrinking any animal that may be shown him.
From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Jules Steeg
We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes.
From Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction by Lane Cooper
A great number of crawfishes had arrived from Germany that morning in cases and hampers, and the market was also crowded with river fish from Holland and England.
From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Once I caught five crawfishes there, while Marian waited on the bank; and afterward we found an old tomato-can and boiled them in it, and they came out a really gorgeous crimson.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
His pedler's pack was buried in the mud so deep that not even the probing crawfishes could find it.
From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
