crawdad

craw·dad  (krôdd)

n. Chiefly Southern & Western U.S.

See crayfish.

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[craw(fish) + dad.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crawdad - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly crawfish, ecrevisse, crayfish Old World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America American crayfish - common large crayfishes of eastern North America shellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
	2.	crawdad - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish decapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax Astacidae, Astacura, family Astacidae - crayfish Old World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America American crayfish - common large crayfishes of eastern North America