crawfish

英 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

美 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

n.  螯虾

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柯林斯词典

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

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 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 lobstercrayfishsea crawfish
• small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  Synonym:crayfishcrawdadcrawdaddy
• tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
  Synonym:crayfishcrawdadecrevisse

verb

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
  1. We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
  2. He backed out of his earlier promise
  3. The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
  Synonym:retreatpull backback outback awaycrawfish outpull in one's hornswithdraw

双语例句

• High-efficient Complementary Technologies for 'Double Chain' Type Eco-agriculture Model Forest-Forage grass-Goose-Red swamp crawfish
  双链型林-牧草-鹅-龙虾生态农业模式的高效配套技术
• Crawfish in shell Exerting a Leading Function of the Research and Development Center to Upgrading Tea Industry
  带壳小龙虾，带壳淡水螯虾发挥龙头带头作用，提升茶叶产业水平
• "It must be awful to dream of starvation after a seven-course dinner including that enormous crawfish."
  “晚饭吃了七道菜，包括一只大龙虾，夜里睡觉还要梦见挨饿，一定是非常可怕的。”
• This is to suggest prevention and control measures of chloramphenicol residue in crawfish.
  〔目的〕提出科学、可行的淡水小龙虾中氯霉素残留危害的预防与控制措施。
• Last weekend, I found some crawfish tails and boiled whole crawfish at a grocery store, and was about to buy some.
  上周，我见到一些小龙虾，在杂货店整个蒸煮，打算买点。
• Also low are haddock, pollock, flounder and sole, Atlantic croaker, crawfish, catfish, trout, Atlantic mackerel, crab and mullet.
  其他汞含量较低的品种有：黑线鳕、青鳕、比目鱼和鳎、细须石首鱼、小龙虾、鲶鱼、鳟鱼、大西洋鲭鱼、蟹和鲻鱼。
• Both species of crawfish occur naturally in the Mid-Atlantic region, but crawfish farming is a very recent development here.
  两种小龙虾都天然出现在中大西洋地区，不过最近小龙虾的养殖在此地有所发展。
• Louisiana State University Professor Greg Lutz has studied crawfish species and the industry for30 years.
  路易斯安那州立大学教授GregLutz研究小龙虾种类和该行业已经长达三十年代时间。
• They lay their eggs in the winter and early spring and they grow all through the summer, so the ideal would be to have crawfish just in time for football season.
  他们在冬季和早春季节产卵，在整个夏季生长，所以，可以及时提供足球赛季的小龙虾。
• Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo.
  还有什锦菜，秋葵肉片，小龙虾派。