crabfish

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English[edit]

Potamon fluviatile, a freshwater crab.

Etymology[edit]

crab +‎ fish

Noun[edit]

crabfish (plural crabfish or crabfishes)

  1. (archaic) A freshwater crab found in Southern European rivers, streams, and lakes, Potamon fluviatile or Cancer fluviatilis.
    • 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:
      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.
  2. (archaic) A lobster or crayfish.
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