Noun

• S: (n) crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse (tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))
• part holonym
• 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

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"