Word Finder - shrimps

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Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.

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The flesh of such crustaceans.

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A small, puny or unimportant person.

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To fish for shrimp.

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To contract; to shrink.

The fisheries are important, principally those for shrimps and lobsters.

Shrimps, crabs and lobsters form an important source of food supply.

The name of shrimps is sometimes given to members of the order Schizopoda, which differ from most of the Macrura in having swimming branches or exopodites on the thoracic legs.

Of the 350 known species of mantis shrimps only two are found in British waters.

Due to the heavy demand for fish, some of us took advantage of the offer of grilled shrimps.

Their main food source is freshwater shrimps, water slaters and caddis larvae which they obtain by diving and hunting underwater.

Those who love seafood may also find this restaurant's fried fish, shrimps and salad dishes enjoyable.

He's having sumptuous, juicy shrimp tacos made with shrimps just dropped off by the sun-beaten fisherman, I'm having jack cheese.

These shrimps as well as a large species of crabmokuzo-ganiserve the people as an article of food, but the small crabs which live in holes have no recognized raison d tre.

As I 'm not, I'll throw a couple of shrimps on the barbie and call it a day.

The shrimps and their allies are distinguished from the larger Macrura, such as the lobsters and crayfishes, by greater development of the paddle-like limbs of the abdomen or tail, which are used in swimming.

Shrimps, soles and flounders are taken in great numbers in the estuaries of the Thames and Medway, along the north coast and off Ramsgate.

The neighbouring Pegwell Bay, famed for its shrimps, is supposed to have been the scene of the landing of Hengist and Horsa, and at Cliff's End (Ebbs Fleet) a monolithic cross marks the landing-place of St Augustine in 596.

In the Zuider Zee small herring, flat fish, anchovies and shrimps are caught, the chief fishing centres being the islands of Texel, Urk and Wieringen, and the coast towns of Helder, Bunschoten, Huizen, Enkhuizen, Vollendam, Kampen, Harderwyk, Vollenhove.

The annual value of the shell-fish (lobsters, crabs, oysters, mussels, clams, periwinkles, cockles, shrimps) is about £73,000.

The middle one contains but two families, the cylindrical and often thread-like skeleton shrimps, Caprellidae, and their near cousins, the broad, flattened, so-called whale-lice, Cyamidae.

The Stenopidea, another primitive group, differing from the Penaeidea in the character of the gills,, appear in the Trias and Jurassic. The Caridea or true prawns and shrimps appear later, in the Upper Jurassic, some of them presenting primitive characteristics in the retention of swimming exopodites on the walking-legs.

Trilobites are an extinct group of arthropod - animals with jointed exoskeleton like crabs, shrimps and lobsters.

Prawns and shrimps have a rigid exoskeleton that protects the soft internal structure.

The amphipods include the extremely common sand hopper and the bizarre skeleton shrimps.

Spirit of Norfolk Dining and Entertainment Cruises That was to for cruises on intoxicated shrimps and.

I have dived most of the coast of Mozambique it is fantastic, from Whales and Mantas to leaf fish and harlequin shrimps.

He 's having sumptuous, juicy shrimp tacos made with shrimps just dropped off by the sun-beaten fisherman, I 'm having jack cheese.

Shrimps (kawa-ebi) also are found in the rivers and rice-fields.

I see my fairy shrimps and tadpole shrimps avoid nets, or thrash when a predator bites them.

Shrimps, frogs (of great commercial importance), terrapin, clams and oysters are common.