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fairy shrimp

fairy shrimp noun: a small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.

fairy shrimp: a small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its...
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Noun

fairy shrimp (plural fairy shrimps or fairy shrimp)

  1. A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.
    • Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in drought conditions. They live in the ground in eggs until weather conditions such as floods can bring them to the surface, says IFL Science.2023 September 5, Amelia Neath, “Three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ are waking up in the desert after Burning Man washout”, in The Independent

Forms of fairy shrimp

pluralfairy shrimps
pluralfairy shrimp

Questions about fairy shrimp

What does fairy shrimp mean?
Fairy shrimp means a small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.
What part of speech is fairy shrimp?
Fairy shrimp is a noun.
What is the plural of fairy shrimp?
The plural of fairy shrimp is fairy shrimps.

Words near fairy shrimp in the dictionary

  1. fairy ring champignon
  2. fairy ring champignons
  3. fairy ring fungus
  4. fairy ring mushroom
  5. fairy rings
  6. fairy shrimp
  7. fairy shrimps
  8. fairy snuff
  9. fairy stone
  10. fairy stones
  11. fairy stories

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