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crabfish en · NOUN

Etymology

From crab + fish.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A 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. (archaic) A lobster or crayfish.

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