Crayfish vs Cancer - What's the difference?
crayfish | cancer |
(New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota) A freshwater crustacean () resembling a small lobster, sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
(AU, NZ, South Africa) A rock lobster.
(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
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As nouns the difference between crayfish and cancer
is that crayfish is a freshwater crustacean (Cambaridae) resembling a small lobster, sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait while cancer is a disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.As a proper noun Cancer is
a constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a crab.crayfish
English
(wikipedia crayfish)Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
The term crayfish'' predominates in the region of New England and in New York, Pennsylvania Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In much of the United States—in the South, especially in Louisiana and Texas; in the Midwest and in the West—''crawfish'' predominates. In a belt stretching across Kentucky through Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma, and in Oregon and northern California, the term ''crawdad predominates.[http://spark-1590165977.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/]Synonyms
* (freshwater crustaceans) crawdad, crawfish, mudbug, yabby (Australia)See also
* lobster * prawn * shrimp * yabbycancer
English
* (wikipedia "cancer")Noun
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