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FAIRY SHRIMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fairy shrimp mean? 

FAIRY SHRIMP (noun)
  The noun FAIRY SHRIMP has 1 sense:

1. small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its backplay

  Familiarity information: FAIRY SHRIMP used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FAIRY SHRIMP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fairy shrimp" is a kind of...):

branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan (aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding)

Holonyms ("fairy shrimp" is a member of...):

Artemia; Chirocephalus; genus Artemia; genus Chirocephalus (fairy shrimp; brine shrimp)


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