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
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
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
Spiders, thousand-legs, crawfishes and even earth-worms are often spoken of as bugs.
From An Elementary Study of Insects by Leonard Haseman
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
