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But the rest of their kindred, the cray-fish, are still living underground.
'Primordial Soup' Ousted from the Origin of Life?!? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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The Cray-Fish clan of the Choctaws were originally cray-fish and lived underground, coming up occasionally through the mud to the surface.
'Primordial Soup' Ousted from the Origin of Life?!? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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A good many fishes in the brook, and many cray-fish; one of the last with a queer glow-worm head.
Vailima Letters 2005
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Followed an excellent salad of tomatoes and cray-fish, a good Indian curry, a tender joint of beef, a dish of pigeons, a pudding, cheese and coffee.
Vailima Letters 2005
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At European tables in the settlements the red mullet, a highly prized fish, the pomfret, considered more delicious than the turbot, and the tungeree, with cray-fish, crabs, prawns, and shrimps, are usually seen.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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The drawing of “the UKODKO or smaller Murray cray-fish” most nearly resembles ASTACUS QUINQUE-CARINATUS, but it is three or four times larger than any of the specimens of that species which we possess, and the figure does not shew any indications of the five keels on the front of the head.
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Mr. Eyre having brought home with him the drawing of a species of cray-fish found near the river Murray, which is called by the natives UKODKO, I have been induced to examine the different species of Astaci in the British Museum collection, which have been received at various times from Australia, for the purpose of attempting to identify it.
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The highest luxury of this kind, with which the English were gratified was the lobster, or sea cray-fish.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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When some of this was taken up, it was found to contain a large quantity of small animals, of a reddish hue, and which the microscope discovered to resemble a cray-fish.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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When some of this was taken up, it was found to contain a large quantity of small animals, of a reddish hue, and which the microscope discovered to resemble a cray-fish.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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