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crabfishes

crabfishes is the plural of crabfish.

Meaning of crabfish

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.

Questions about crabfishes

What is crabfishes the plural of?
Crabfishes is the plural of crabfish.

Words near crabfishes in the dictionary

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

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