Crayfishy

“I’ll see if I can find a helgramite,” Nicky said. “No fish can refuse that.” / Laner laughed. “It sounds tough.” / “It’s a small crayfishy-looking creature. You wouldn’t like it.”

The wind was advertising the river’s smell – damp, raw and crayfishy.

We had insect life on Proxima, and pets too, but nothing like the writhing crayfishy half-snakes in there.

Evil little crayfishy aliens inhabit teachers’ bodies at a run-down high school in this clever variation on the body-snatchers theme.

Seafood you never heard of, like barramundi, shark lips, and Balmain bugs (not the designer, but a crayfishy crustacean) also is popular, since about 99 percent of the population lives on the coast.

I remember the crayfishy smell of the creek under the one-lane bridge, near where foxes ran: this was where I found, anchored by its shaft in the sandy mud of the creek bank, a red-tailed feather leaning in the breeze.

[T]hey all sat down to a light, working luncheon of Pret A Manger and Evian. None of this was a problem – though he certainly favoured his normal pilchard over the crayfishy things that Angela had arranged.