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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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
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
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
On the river-shore crawfishes were lazily creeping over the gravel.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
Spiders, thousand-legs, crawfishes and even earth-worms are often spoken of as bugs.
From An Elementary Study of Insects by Leonard Haseman
