Terminology record for crayfish
RECORD
| Record No.: | 193/en/355 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2022-11-27 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | |||||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * écrevisse statut : recommandé
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| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | nom féminin | ||||||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | écrevisse | ||||||
| SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE |
Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). | ||||||
| DÉFINITION |
Crustacé décapode comestible, vivant en eau douce, doté de deux pinces antérieures et dont l’abdomen est distinct du tronc | ||||||
| PLURIEL | écrevisses ; | ||||||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | ||||||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | |||||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Crayfish status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | ||||||
| PLURAL | Crayfish ; Crayfishes ; | ||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Middle English: from Old French crevice, of Germanic origin and related to German Krebs. In the 16th cent. or earlier the second syllable was altered by association with fish. | ||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). | ||||||
| DEFINITION |
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
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| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). | ||||||
