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1. Shrimp
   American's most valuable and popular shellfish. This ten-legged crustacean got its name from English word 'shrimpe,' which means 'puny person.'
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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
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5. 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 Scri...
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6. 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 ...
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7. 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...
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8. 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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9. 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 th...
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10. 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 ...
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11. 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]
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12. shrimp
    
    • disparaging terms for small people
    • any of various edible decapod crustaceans
    • small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
    
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13. 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...
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14. Shrimp
    Shrimp is slang for to lick, suck and kiss the toes for sexual gratification.
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15. Shrimp
    Shrimp is slang for to lick, suck and kiss the toes for sexual gratification.
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16. Shrimp
    The shrimp is a class of predatory marine Malacostraca.
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17. shrimp
    Crustacean related to the prawn. It has a cylindrical, semi-transparent body, with ten jointed legs. Some shrimps grow as large as 25 cm/10 in long. The European common shrimp Crangon vulgaris is greenish, translucent, has its first pair of legs ending in pincers, possesses no rostrum (the beaklike structure which extends...
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18. Shrimp
    a severe hook, named because it resembles the shape of a shrimp.
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19. Shrimp
    `Shrimp` are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important fo...
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