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craifish

craifish is the obsolete spelling of crayfish.

Meaning of crayfish

Noun

crayfish (plural crayfishes or crayfish)

  1. Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
    1. (New-England, Pennsylvania, Upper Midwestern US) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
  3. (Australia) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
  4. (Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).
    Synonyms:
    Moreton Bay bug

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Questions about craifish

What is craifish the obsolete spelling of?
Craifish is the obsolete spelling of crayfish.

Words near craifish in the dictionary

  1. Craibe
  2. craic
  3. craic killer
  4. craic killers
  5. Craidorolț
  6. craifish
  7. craig
  8. Craig County
  9. craig flounder
  10. craig flounders
  11. craig fluke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: craifish (page history and authors); crayfish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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