crawfish

英 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

美 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

n.  螯虾

COCA.20178

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

• It was studied that Red Swamp Crawfish growing and laying eggs fed with different forage prescription.
  研究了不同饵料配比条件下克氏原螯虾生长和抱卵的情况。
• 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。
• "We are looking at trying to extend the crawfish season," he said.
  我们正在努力延长这种小龙虾的生长季节。
• We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him; he backed out of his earlier promise.
  我们必须要从见他的活动中撤退；他从他早些时候的。
• We'll just have to crawfish out of shaking hands with them.
  我们只有结束跟他们的友好关系。
• "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。”
• Process Study on Sterilization and Preservation of Frozen Crawfish by Irradiation
  冷冻龙虾仁辐照灭菌保鲜工艺技术研究
• 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。
• 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's Crawfish ( Procambarus clarkii) Farming Industry in United States
  美国路易斯安那州的克氏原螯虾产业发展概述