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- n. Plural form of crayfish.
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“According to the literature1, 2, some species of crayfishes spend most of their lives in burrows, while others burrow for various reasons, for example to escape desiccation during times of drought or to move below the frost line during winter.”
“In some habitats, in addition to the aquatic insect larvae, crustaceans such as freshwater shrimp, crayfishes, and tiny free-swimming “water fleas” are important food items.”
“I afterward visited the locality several times, collecting specimens of the mounds and crayfishes, which are now in the United”
“The crayfishes would leave these little retreats whenever disturbed, and swim away down stream out of sight.”
“Although I have no proof that this is so, I am inclined to believe that the burrowing crayfishes retire to the stream in winter and remain there until early spring, when they construct their burrows for the purpose of rearing their young and escaping the summer droughts.”
“Nothing could be seen, however, but an unusual number of prawns or crayfishes, into which they supposed the infant had been changed.”
“Of crayfishes also here wanted no plenty, and they of exceeding bigness, one whereof was sufficient for four hungry stomachs at a dinner, being also very good and restoring meat, whereof we had experience: and they dig themselves holes in the earth like coneys.”
“Pierre, where crayfishes had destroyed a pioneer dam.”
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“And yet, objectively considered, there is no reason to be less disgusted at the eating of crayfishes than when some other kind of animal is eaten in the same manner.”
“In the North American fresh-water crayfishes of the genus”
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