名詞 crayfish:

1. warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
   同義詞：spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster
2. tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
   同義詞：crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse
3. small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
   同義詞：crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy
4. large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
   同義詞：spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, sea crawfish

cray.fish

n.（名詞）
【復(fù)數(shù)】 crayfish 或 cray.fish.es 也作 crawfish 或 craw.fish.es
Any of various freshwater crustaceans of the generaCambarus and Astacus, resembling a lobster but considerably smaller. Also called Regional crawdad ,mudbug
螯蝦：任一種喇蛄屬 和 螯蝦屬 的淡水甲殼類動(dòng)物，形狀象龍蝦但比龍蝦要小 也作 【區(qū)域的】 crawdad,mudbug
See spiny lobster
參見(jiàn) spiny lobster

來(lái)源：
By folk etymology from Middle English crevise
源自 中古英語(yǔ) crevise的民間詞源
from Old French crevice
源自 古法語(yǔ) crevice
perhaps from Old High German krebiz [edible crustacean] * see gerbh-
可能源自 古高地德語(yǔ) krebiz [可食用甲殼類動(dòng)物] *參見(jiàn) gerbh-

<注釋>The crayfish, also known as the crawfish, owes its name to a misunderstanding.The actual source of the word may be the Old High German wordkrebiz, .edible crustacean,. or a word related to it.From this Germanic source came Old Frenchcrevice, which when taken into English becamecrevise (first recorded in a document written in 3-32). In Old French and Middle English these words designated the crayfish.People began to pronounce and spell the last part of this word as if it werefish, the firstfish spelling (actually fysshes ) being recorded in 555. Because of a variation in Anglo-Norman pronunciation,two forms of the word have come down to Modern English:crayfish and crawfish.
螯蝦又名crawfish，正是出于誤解才有現(xiàn)在這個(gè)名字。該詞的真正來(lái)源可能是古高地德語(yǔ)中krebiz 一詞， 意為.可食用的甲殼類動(dòng)物.，或與之相關(guān)的一詞。從這個(gè)日耳曼語(yǔ)詞源中出現(xiàn)了古法語(yǔ)crevice 一詞， 該詞被借用入英語(yǔ)中變成了crevise （初次記錄在3-32年間所寫的一個(gè)文件中）。 在古法語(yǔ)和中世紀(jì)英語(yǔ)中這一詞被稱為crayfish。人們開始用fish 來(lái)發(fā)音和拼寫這個(gè)詞的后半部分， 而第一個(gè)fish 拼寫法（實(shí)際上是 fysshes )被記錄于555年。 由于英國(guó)法語(yǔ)發(fā)音的差異，這個(gè)詞的兩種變體，即crayfish 和 crawfish 就共同延續(xù)到了現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ)中