crabfish

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noun

A freshwater crab found in Southern European rivers, streams, and lakes, Potamon fluviatile or Cancer fluviatilis.

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Meanings

nouncrabfish (plural crabfish or crabfishes)

plural crabfishes

  1. archaicA freshwater crab found in Southern European rivers, streams, and lakes, Potamon fluviatile or Cancer fluviatilis.

    Cancer fluviatilis, River crabfish, The ashes of these fishes (as Galen saith) are of wonderfull vertue, by the propertie of their substance, against the biting of a mad dogge.

    1631, Thomas Spackman, A Declaration of Such Greivous accidents as commonly follow the biting of mad Dogges, together with the cure thereof, London: John Bill, page 79
  2. archaicA lobster or crayfish.

Origin

From crab + fish.

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APA

crabfish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crabfish

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“crabfish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crabfish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crabfish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crabfish.

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