écrevissen.
A freshwater lobster.
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lobstera1000
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red crab1674
crevis fish1688
crayfish1748
Norway lobster1777
Cape lobster1793
spiny lobster1819
langouste1832
thorny lobster1833
écrevisse1854
chicken lobster1871
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Dublin prawn1911
langostino1915
scampi1928
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > fresh-water lobster
écrevisse1854
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxviii. 266 Pass me the écrévisses [sic], they are most succulent.
1930 E. Waugh Labels viii. 188 There were heaps of rather dangerous-looking lobsters and écrevisses.
1966 Punch 14 Sept. 384/2 We import frozen fragments of dogfish tail and call them scampi, while not bothering to gather the écrevisses..in our..chalk-streams.
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