crawfish

英 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

美 [ˈkrɔːfɪʃ]

n.  螯虾

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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

• To treat with shell of crawfish properly, preparation of glucosamine hydrochloride from the shell of shrimp was studied in this paper.
  分开处理喇蛄壳的不同部分，提取甲壳素，并制备氨基葡萄糖盐酸盐。
• "This is that alternative species of crawfish," said Lutz.
  这是小龙虾的替代品种。
• Small, shallow ponds have been stocked with red swamp crawfish and are managed for commercial production.
  又小又浅的池塘里挤满了克氏螯虾，并被用于商业化的养殖。
• 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。
• Crawfish farmers in New Orleans use them for temperature control on the way to the market.
  向市场运送小龙虾的途中，新奥尔良农民使用它们来控制温度。
• 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。
• This is to suggest prevention and control measures of chloramphenicol residue in crawfish.
  〔目的〕提出科学、可行的淡水小龙虾中氯霉素残留危害的预防与控制措施。
• When the crawfish season ends, around June, the traps are pulled out and the rice season begins.
  小龙虾季节在六月份左右结束之后，这些圈套就被拉出来，随后稻米季节开始了。
• 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。
• All tired out, they reached the red crawfish inn.
  总算来到红虾旅店，大家都快累死了。