Crayfish seen from the side, with that portion of the carapace removed which covers the branchiæ, or gills.
The crayfish is very helpless now, and secretes itself for several days until the new skin hardens, when it appears in a freshly colored coat of yellow and black.
One of the most interesting of these ten-footed crustaceans is the blindcrayfish of Mammoth Cave.
There had been a flood the day previous, and every log in the neighborhood and the piers of the bridge were covered with crayfish which, in this locality at least, appeared to be endeavoring to escape from too much water.
The breathing organs are conspicuous, curled up like plumes on each side of the crayfish and attached to the base of the legs.
The Florida crayfish is a rich reddish yellow, mottled color, while the California form is a greenish yellow.
The ordinary crayfish of Western streams has a peculiar habit of burrowing, which at times has occasioned great damage in undermining dikes and dams.
The lobster and the Pacific crayfish are both canned, the industry being an important one.
When you reach the rock you must say, 'Let the water-lily become a maiden and the crayfish a man!
At last the woman wishes to be God, and the crayfish sends the foolish couple back to their poverty.
Upon this he cried out, "Let the water-lily become a maiden and the crayfish a man.
The roots were firmly fixed in the sand and mud, so that the crayfish had to work for seven whole days before he could complete his task.
Kreutzwald's story of "The Powerful Crayfish and the Insatiable Wife" is almost identical with that of Grimm.
While the Kalevide was lamenting that he found less difficulty in crossing Lake Peipus with a heavy load of timber on his back, he heard a crayfish advising him to sound the bell, when the brook instantly vanished.
The intestine of the Crayfish is given as another habitat.
To satisfy ourselves on this point we have only to open a Crayfish during active digestion.
The Crayfish hatches and subsequently protects her young.
For example, when he brought crayfish to the house, he improved the opportunity.
Ten years ago the banks of the river from Staines to the upper waters at Cricklade were honeycombed with crayfish holes, like sandmartins' nests in a railway cutting.
They grow very fast, and this makes it necessary for the youthful crayfish to "moult" or shed their shells eight times in their first twelvemonth of life, as the shell is rigid and does not grow with the body.
The constant secretion of the lime necessary to make these shells is so exhausting to the youthful crayfish that only a small number ever grow up.
Most cottages near the river had one or two of these pots, which were baited on summer nights and laid in the bottom of the stream near the crayfish holes.
Crayfish catching, until lately one of the minor fisheries of the Thames, is now a vanished industry.
In these same joints below water the crayfish had made holes or homes of some sort, and were sitting at the doors with their claws and feelers just outside, waiting, like Mr. Micawber, for something to turn up.
To meet their views the crayfish catcher had cut a long willow withe.
It is like a crayfish basket, and is in fact the same thing, only rather larger.
In America, where a large freshwater crayfish nearly a foot long is found, its burrowing habits are a serious nuisance, especially in the dykes of the Mississippi.
Young men and women thoroughly enjoy thesecrayfish parties, where it is said the maidens sometimes catch other fish than the rapu.
Then he goes to the next stick, and generally the crayfish catch on so quickly, he is busily employed the whole time going from one rod to another.
Having secured what may be called all his fishing-rods safely at a certain distance, he wanders along the banks observing carefully where a crayfish is hanging on to a piece of meat by its claws.
Catching these little crayfish is not only a profession, but also a great source of amusement to young and old among the better class.
Then he put his face close to the window-pane, thinking that a person looking for crayfish might be poaching in the Brindelle, for it was past midnight, and this light rose up at the edge of the stream, under the trees.
If only one antennule be thus stimulated, or stimulated to a higher degree than the other, the crayfish seems generally (but not always) to turn to that side in search of food.
I tried on a crayfish the following experiment: When it was at rest at the bottom of its tank, I allowed a current of pure water (the water in which it lived) to flow from a pipette over its antennæ and antennules.
The former moved slightly as before, but the antennules were thrown into a rapid up-and-down jerky vibration, and shortly afterwards the crayfish began moving about the bottom of its tank.
In the aquatic crayfish there are, besides the long antennæ, smaller antennules, each of which has two filaments, an inner and an outer.
In the lobster or crayfish the auditory organs are found at the base of the smaller feelers or antennules.
Likewise did I fish in the Lippe, and was so lucky at that, that it seemed as if I could conjure both fish and crayfish out of the water.
Crayfish and mussels they caught by digging down their holes in the mud for them.
Giant crayfishsnapped their horny claws at the unwary.
Failing to grasp the fleshy member, the crayfish retreated, disgruntled and annoyed.
He felt a shock as the mighty jaws closed upon the corklike fungus, then felt himself drawn upward as the crayfish released his hold and the shelf-fungus floated to the surface.
The monster crayfish was attracted by the disturbance, and was approaching.
Flayed and stuck at the end of a split stick, he serves as bait to tempt the crayfish to come out of his retreat by the brook side.
I could see the ends of the earth, that is to say, the hills that blocked the horizon, all but a misty gap through which the brook with the crayfish flowed under the alders and willows.
Thus the Old Ritualists will not eat the crayfish (rak), holding that it was created by the Devil.
At the eagle's command, the crayfish search for it, and bring back word that it is lying "on the knees of an Idol.
How can a fellow dig into school books when he knows it's going to be a dead low tide, and the crayfish will be sticking their feelers up everywhere out of the kelp?
There's any amount of crayfish out on the reef, and the water is full of whopping blue gropers.
When done, cut the string where it is sewn, lay it on its back in a dish, garnish the breast with sliced truffles cut in fancy shapes, and place a crayfish tail to represent the turtle's tail.
Fill the centre with Allemagne sauce, to which has been added some lobster and crayfish butter to make it red.
A young pike poked its ugly nose out of the water, and there were swarms of crayfish and little fish round about it.
Yegorushka put his hand down to the bottom and stirred up the water; the pike vanished under the crayfish and a perch and a tench swam to the surface instead of it.
The crayfish could not be hooked out with a spoon, and the men simply picked them out of the cauldron with their hands; Vassya did so particularly freely, and wetted his sleeves as well as his hands in the mess.
But yet the stew seemed to Yegorushka very nice, and reminded him of the crayfish soup which his mother used to make at home on fast-days.
When they had finished cleaning them, Kiruha and Vassya put the fish and the living crayfish together in the pail, rinsed them, and from the pail poured them all into the boiling water.
Viewed from above, the cornea of a crayfish is seen to be divided into a number of compartments or cells, and looks, in this respect, very much like a section of honeycomb.
Usually he seized the lobster or crayfish by its back and then broke off its forceps; he would then proceed to suck out its juices and extract its meat.
The female crayfish carries her eggs beneath her tail, and, when they have hatched out, the young find this sheltering member a safe and cosey dwelling-place until they have grown strong enough to enter life's struggle.
They are what are known as compound eyes, a type common to the crayfish and lobster families.
I have seen crayfish rush down stream after bits of meat thrown to them, thus showing that here, at least, the sense of sight directed them.
Again, I have enticed crayfish from clear streams by slowly dragging a baited hook in front of them.
The crayfish also has its eyes at the tips of eyestalks, but the eyes of this creature are very different, indeed, from the eyes of the snail.
At such times, the mother crayfish is quite brave, and will do battle with any foe.
I don't know whether there are any crayfish in the Oxhide, but we can go and find out; and if there are, I guess cat and perch will bite at 'em as well as trout.
The first stone he turned over had three of the coveted crayfish hidden under its slimy bottom, and excited at his luck, he quickly caught them.
The Crayfish waved its feelers in the air, and, before she could count three, it had taken the form of a beautiful little old woman, with pretty snow-white hair and a dainty shepherdess costume.
Then a big Crayfish came up and climbed on to the bank and spoke to her: 'Great Queen, you shall have your desire.
The Queen listened without interrupting, for hearing a big Crayfish talk--and talk so nicely too--was a great surprise to her.
Jellies ofcrayfish and loach; young rabbits and pork.
Have some marine crayfish boiled, shell the tails, cut them in pieces, removing the black line inside.
Cut three truffles into thick slices, heat them and the crayfish in some ordinary white sauce, enriched with the yolk of a raw egg, pepper and salt, and one dessertspoonful of tarragon vinegar.
The fresh-water mussels and snails and the crayfish burrow deep into the mud and silt at the bottom of ponds and streams where they lie motionless during the winter.
A city remains notwithstanding the constant death-rate of its inhabitants; and such an organism as a crayfish is only a corporate unity, made up of innumerable partially independent individualities.
The crayfish dies as a state dies, and all states that we have heard of die sooner or later.
When Professor Huxley can find a city that will last for ever, he may wonder that a crayfish does not last for ever.
The following from Professor Huxley's recent work upon the crayfish may serve for an example.
The death of such a body corporate as the crayfish is due to the social condition becoming more complex than there is memory of past experience to deal with.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crayfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clam; crab; limpet; lobster; oyster; prawn; scallop; shellfish; shrimp; snail; steamer; whelk
