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brown shrimp

brown shrimp noun: crangon crangon, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea.

Noun

brown shrimp (countable and uncountable, plural brown shrimp or brown shrimps)

  1. Crangon crangon, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea.
  2. Farfantepenaeus aztecus, found in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
  3. Farfantepenaeus subtilis, found in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean as far north as Cuba.
  4. Metapenaeus monoceros, an Indo-Pacific species and Lessepsian migrant.

Forms of brown shrimp

pluralbrown shrimp
pluralbrown shrimps

Questions about brown shrimp

What does brown shrimp mean?
Brown shrimp means crangon crangon, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea.
What part of speech is brown shrimp?
Brown shrimp is a noun.
What is the plural of brown shrimp?
The plural of brown shrimp is brown shrimp.

Words near brown shrimp in the dictionary

  1. brown shoes
  2. brown shower
  3. brown showers
  4. brown shrike
  5. brown shrikes
  6. brown shrimp
  7. brown shrimps
  8. brown snake
  9. brown snakes
  10. brown soft scale
  11. brown soft scales

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