crayfish

英 [ˈkreɪfɪʃ]

美 [ˈkreɪfɪʃ]

n.  淡水螯虾; 海水大龙虾

复数：crayfishes　

BNC.33846 / COCA.23008

牛津词典

noun

• 淡水螯虾；海水大龙虾
  an animal like a small lobster , that lives in rivers and lakes and can be eaten, or one like a large lobster , that lives in the sea and can be eaten

柯林斯词典

• 淡水螯虾
  Acrayfishis a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of 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 lobstercrawfishsea crawfish
• small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
  Synonym:crawfishcrawdadcrawdaddy
• tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
  Synonym:crawfishcrawdadecrevisse
• warm-water lobsters without claws
  Synonym:spiny lobsterlangousterock lobster

双语例句

• The tests also indicated that environmental factors, such as temperature, light density, directly affected development and maturation of crayfish with the change of carapace coloration.
  同时，温度和光照直接影响克氏原螯虾的成熟发育，使其体色发生相应的变化。
• I could not believe the number of crayfish that were in this part of the river.
  我简直无法相信这里有多少小龙虾。
• The crayfish is one of the major freshwater shrimp in China.
  克氏原螯虾，是我国主要的淡水虾之一。
• Lobster? the joss-stick hot crayfish is better!
  龙虾？情愿是香辣小龙虾！
• Type genus of the Branchiobdellidae: a small worm that lives on the gills or surface of a crayfish attached by a sucker.
  蛭形蚓科的模式属；一种小的蠕虫，靠吸管吸附于小龙虾腮部或表面。
• This paper first elaborates the crayfish resources and biological characteristics, the general situation of crayfish aquaculture both in China and abroad.
  本文首先阐述了小龙虾的资源和生物学特征，回顾了国内外的小龙虾养殖业的概况。
• Like this blind cave crayfish, scientists determined that they can live here for more than a hundred years, 20 times longer than their surface cousins.
  比如这种洞穴小龙虾，科学家们相信它们能活一百多年，寿命是水面上生活的兄弟姐妹的20倍。
• In the southeastern United States, which is afreshwater diversity hotspot, almost 40% of molluscs and crayfish could bewiped out owing to the effects of dams and pollution.
  在美国的东南部，那里有很多的淡水物种，由于受水坝和污染的影响，几乎40%的软体动物和淡水龙虾可能会被淘汰。
• To this end, it is very necessary to in-depth study of Qianjiang City crayfish industry.
  为此，有必要对潜江市小龙虾产业的发展进行深入的研究。
• Small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America.
  产于欧洲、亚洲和美洲西部的小螯虾。