crayfish

英 [ˈkreɪfɪʃ]

美 [ˈkreɪfɪʃ]

n.  淡水螯虾; 海水大龙虾

复数：crayfishes　

BNC.33846 / COCA.23008

牛津词典

noun

• 淡水螯虾；海水大龙虾
  an animal like a small lobster , that lives in rivers and lakes and can be eaten, or one like a large lobster , that lives in the sea and can be eaten

柯林斯词典

• 淡水螯虾
  Acrayfishis a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.

英英释义

noun

• large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
  Synonym:spiny lobsterlangousterock lobstercrawfishsea crawfish
• small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  Synonym:crawfishcrawdadcrawdaddy
• tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
  Synonym:crawfishcrawdadecrevisse
• warm-water lobsters without claws
  Synonym:spiny lobsterlangousterock lobster

双语例句

• Kai Wang and her friends like to sniff out the latest regional Chinese restaurants: a tiny cafe in east London specialising in food from China's north-east, or one near London Bridge serving numbing and hot crayfish.
  王凯（音译）和她的朋友们乐于发觉最新的中国地方菜餐馆：一家位于伦敦东部专营中国西北菜的小餐馆，或是一家位于伦敦桥旁的餐馆提供「麻辣小龙虾」。
• This paper first elaborates the crayfish resources and biological characteristics, the general situation of crayfish aquaculture both in China and abroad.
  本文首先阐述了小龙虾的资源和生物学特征，回顾了国内外的小龙虾养殖业的概况。
• The tests also indicated that environmental factors, such as temperature, light density, directly affected development and maturation of crayfish with the change of carapace coloration.
  同时，温度和光照直接影响克氏原螯虾的成熟发育，使其体色发生相应的变化。
• Large bodies of water will be occupied not only by frogs but larger aquatic animals such as Long-necked Tortoises and Freshwater Yabbies or Crayfish.
  水的大身体将被青蛙但是更大的水动物占据例如不仅长-压缩的龟和淡水小螫虾或喇蛄。
• Like this blind cave crayfish, scientists determined that they can live here for more than a hundred years, 20 times longer than their surface cousins.
  比如这种洞穴小龙虾，科学家们相信它们能活一百多年，寿命是水面上生活的兄弟姐妹的20倍。
• Tarantulas have an exoskeleton ( that means its skeleton is on the outside) like crayfish and crabs.
  狼蛛它有外骨骼（意味着其骨骼是长在外面的）这与小龙虾和螃蟹有点像。
• Unfortunately, we now have our own invasive-species crayfish in this area mostly red swamp crayfish from the southern United States, he says.
  很不幸，我们这也来了一群不速之客，大多数是来自美国南部的红沼泽螯虾。
• Small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America.
  产于欧洲、亚洲和美洲西部的小螯虾。
• Lobster? the joss-stick hot crayfish is better!
  龙虾？情愿是香辣小龙虾！
• The crayfish is one of the major freshwater shrimp in China.
  克氏原螯虾，是我国主要的淡水虾之一。