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CAPRELLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caprella mean? 

CAPRELLA (noun)
  The noun CAPRELLA has 1 sense:

1. skeleton shrimpplay

  Familiarity information: CAPRELLA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAPRELLA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Skeleton shrimp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Caprella; genus Caprella

Hypernyms ("Caprella" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Caprella"):

skeleton shrimp (small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweed)

Holonyms ("Caprella" is a member of...):

Amphipoda; order Amphipoda (small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp)


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