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Look up: shrimp

  1. Shrimp
    see 'shrimps'
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  2. Shrimp
    Shrimp is slang for to lick, suck and kiss the toes for sexual gratification.
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  3. Shrimp
    American's most valuable and popular shellfish. This ten-legged crustacean got its name from English word 'shrimpe,' which means 'puny person.'
    Found on http://www.nutribase.com/fishmeat.shtml

  4. Shrimp
    There are thousands of varieties of shrimp. They can be divided into four major categories: Warm Water (Tropical)Cold Water Freshwater and Sand Shrimp. The vast majority of shrimp are either Warm or Cold Water. Shrimp are often identified by their color; this can often be misleading as a 'brown shrimp' could be known technically as a pink shrimp or a white shrimp. To make matters worse many people call all but the tiniest of shrimp 'prawns,' when in fact prawns are an entirely different species ...
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  5. shrimp
    [n] - small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers 2. [v] - fish for shrimp
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  6. shrimp
    A vessel which normally uses a light trawl for the capture of shrimps and prawns. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a trawl with a shape and mesh size suitable for catching shrimp and other crustaceans Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. Shrimp
    Shrimp transitive verb [ Confer Anglo-Saxon scrimman to dry up, wither, Middle High German schrimpfen to shrink, German schrumpfen , Danish skrumpe , skrumpes , Da. & Swedish skrumpen shriveled. Confer Scrimp , Shrink , Shrivel .] To contract; to shrink. [ Obsolete]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/95

  8. Shrimp
    Shrimp noun [ Middle English shrimp ; -- probably so named from its shriveled appearance. See Shrimp , v. ] 1. (Zoology) (a) 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 ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/95

  9. shrimp
    1. <zoology> 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. In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar ...
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  10. shrimp
    noun small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
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  11. Shrimp
    True `shrimp` are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder `Caridea`, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Together with prawns, they are widely caught and farmed for human consumption.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp

  12. SHRIMP
    The `SHRIMP` (Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe) is a large-diameter, double focusing secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS). The SHRIMP is primarily used for geological and geochemical applications. It can rapidly measure the isotopic and elemental abundances in minerals at a scale as small as 5 μm and is therefore particularly well-suited for the analysis of complex minerals, as often found in metamorphic terrains, some igneous rocks, a...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRIMP

  13. Shrimp
    • (v.) In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form. • (v.) 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 a...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  14. SHRIMP
    (from the article `Earth sciences`) ...isotopes: thorium-232–lead-208, uranium-235–lead-207, samarium-147–neodymium-143, rubidium-87–strontium-87, potassium-40–argon-40, and ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/87

  15. shrimp
    any of the approximately 2,000 species of the suborder Natantia (order Decapoda of the class Crustacea). Close relatives include crabs, crayfish, ... [9 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/87

  16. shrimp
    1. disparaging terms for small people
    2. any of various edible decapod crustaceans
    3. small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

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  17. shrimp
    shrimp, small marine decapod crustacean with 10 jointed legs on the thorax, well-developed swimmerets on the abdominal segments, and a body that is compressed laterally. Shrimp differ from their close relatives, the lobsters and crabs, in that they are primarily swimmers rather than crawlers. As wit...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08450


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