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Webster 1913 Edition

Sea crayfish

{

Sea′ craw′fishˊ

.

Sea′ cray′fishˊ

. }

(Zool.)

Any crustacean of the genus

Palinurus

and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (

Palinurus vulgaris

), which is much used as an article of food. See

.