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Definition of Shrimp |
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Shrimp
To contract; to shrink. Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda. In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form. In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt. Related Definitions: Allied, Also, And, Any, Are, As, Belonging, Body, Brine, Called, Certain, Contempt, Contract, Crustacea, Crustacean, Decapoda, Dwarf, Even, Fairy, Food, Form, Genera, General, Having, In, Including, Little, Long, Loose, Macruran, Man, Many, More, Numerous, Of, One, Or, Order, Schizopoda, See, Sense, Shrimp, Shrink, Similar, Slender, Small, Some, Species, The, Them, To, Tribe, Under, Used, Various, Wrinkled |
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Shrimp Quotations
I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung! Solomon Burke I shall be but a shrimp of an author. Thomas Gray I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. Brooke Burke |
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Shrimp Translations
shrimp in Dutch is garnaal shrimp in German is Garnele, Krabbe shrimp in Italian is granchiolino shrimp in Spanish is gamba |
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