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Shrimp

To contract; to shrink.

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Decapod 76% connected

A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fish 76% connected

A counter, used in various games.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shrimper 74% connected

One who fishes for shrimps.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shrimper 74% connected

One who fishes for shrimps.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Pleopod 70% connected

One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. See Illust. under Crustacea.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Prawn 70% connected

Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon,…

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Swimmeret 70% connected

One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They ar…

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Prawn 92% connected

Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Runt 92% connected

Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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