1. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
   "The Cajun restaurant served a spicy ecrevisse étouffée";
   - crayfish, crawfish [N. Amer], crawdad [N. Amer]
    
2. Small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
   "The ecrevisse is highly prized in French cuisine";
   - Old World crayfish

Derived forms: ecrevisses

Type of: crawdad [N. Amer], crawdaddy [N. Amer], crawfish [N. Amer], crayfish, shellfish

Part of: American crayfish, Astacus, genus Astacus