sea crawfish

Questions about sea crawfish

What does sea crawfish mean?

sea crawfish means "large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters".

What is another word for sea crawfish?

Close synonyms include spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sea crawfish a common word?

sea crawfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.