Noun

• S: (n) crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse (tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly)
• S: (n) crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy (small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster)
• S: (n) spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish (large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters)
• part meronym
• member holonym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) lobster (any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae)
• S: (n) decapod crustacean, decapod (crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax)
• S: (n) crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)
• S: (n) arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)
• S: (n) invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)
• S: (n) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
• S: (n) organism, being (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
• S: (n) living thing, animate thing (a living (or once living) entity)
• S: (n) whole, unit (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity) "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"
• S: (n) object, physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow) "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"
• S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))

Verb

• S: (v) retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw (make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity) "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"