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crabfish

crabfish noun: a freshwater crab found in Southern European rivers, streams, and lakes, Potamon fluviatile or Cancer fluviatilis.

crabfish: a freshwater crab found in Southern European rivers, streams, and lakes, Potamon fluviatile or...
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Noun

crabfish (plural crabfish or crabfishes)

  1. (archaic) A freshwater crab found in Southern European rivers, streams, and lakes, Potamon fluviatile or Cancer fluviatilis.
    • Cancer fluviatilis, River crabfish, The ashes of these fishes (as Galen saith) are of wonderfull vertue, by the propertie of their substance, against the biting of a mad dogge.1631, Thomas Spackman, A Declaration of Such Greivous accidents as commonly follow the biting of mad Dogges, together with the cure thereof, London: John Bill, page 79
  2. (archaic) A lobster or crayfish.

Forms of crabfish

pluralcrabfish
pluralcrabfishes

Origin of crabfish

From crab + fish.

Questions about crabfish

What does crabfish mean?
Crabfish means a freshwater crab found in Southern European rivers, streams, and lakes, Potamon fluviatile or Cancer fluviatilis.
What part of speech is crabfish?
Crabfish is a noun.
What is the plural of crabfish?
The plural of crabfish is crabfish.

Words near crabfish in the dictionary

  1. crabeater seals
  2. crabeaters
  3. craber
  4. crabers
  5. crabfaced
  6. crabfish
  7. crabfishes
  8. crabgrass
  9. crabgrasses
  10. crabhole
  11. crabholes

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