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cray·fish AHD[krāʹfĭsh'] 也作 craw·fish [krôʹ-] D.J.[ˈkreɪˌfɪʃ] 也作 craw·fish [ˈkrɔː]K.K.[ˈkreˌfɪʃ] 也作 craw·fish [ˈkrɔ]n.（名词）【复数】 crayfish 或 cray.fish.es 也作 crawfish 或 craw.fish.es - Any of various freshwater crustaceans of the generaCambarus and Astacus, resembling a lobster but considerably smaller. Also called Regional crawdad ,mudbug 螯虾：任一种喇蛄属 和 螯虾属 的淡水甲壳类动物，形状象龙虾但比龙虾要小 也作 【区域的】 crawdad,mudbug
- See spiny lobster 参见 spiny lobster
- By folk etymology from Middle English crevise 源自 中古英语 crevise的民间词源
- from Old French crevice 源自 古法语 crevice
- perhaps from Old High German krebiz [edible crustacean] * see gerbh- 可能源自 古高地德语 krebiz [可食用甲壳类动物] * 参见 gerbh-
注释- The crayfish, also known as the crawfish, owes its name to a misunderstanding.The actual source of the word may be the Old High German wordkrebiz, "edible crustacean,” or a word related to it.From this Germanic source came Old Frenchcrevice, which when taken into English becamecrevise (first recorded in a document written in 1311-1312). In Old French and Middle English these words designated the crayfish.People began to pronounce and spell the last part of this word as if it werefish, the firstfish spelling (actually fysshes ) being recorded in 1555. Because of a variation in Anglo-Norman pronunciation,two forms of the word have come down to Modern English:crayfish and crawfish. 螯虾又名crawfish，正是出于误解才有现在这个名字。该词的真正来源可能是古高地德语中krebiz 一词， 意为“可食用的甲壳类动物”，或与之相关的一词。从这个日耳曼语词源中出现了古法语crevice 一词， 该词被借用入英语中变成了crevise （初次记录在1311-1312年间所写的一个文件中）。 在古法语和中世纪英语中这一词被称为crayfish。人们开始用fish 来发音和拼写这个词的后半部分， 而第一个fish 拼写法（实际上是 fysshes )被记录于1555年。 由于英国法语发音的差异，这个词的两种变体，即crayfish 和 crawfish 就共同延续到了现代英语中
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