SHRIMP
\ʃɹˈɪmp], \ʃɹˈɪmp], \ʃ_ɹ_ˈɪ_m_p]\
Definitions of SHRIMP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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fish for shrimp
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small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
By Princeton University
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fish for shrimp
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small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To contract; to shrink.
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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.
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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.
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Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; - in contempt.
By Oddity Software
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To contract; to shrink.
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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.
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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.
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Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; - in contempt.
By Noah Webster.
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Various species of mostly marine crustaceans of the order Decapoda with ten legs and long abdomen. It includes shrimp as food.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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