Word.ws English Dictionary

penaeid

penaeid noun: any prawn of the family Penaeidae, many of which have economic importance.

penaeid: any prawn of the family Penaeidae, many of which have economic importance
Image: division, CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

penaeid (plural penaeids)

  1. Any prawn of the family Penaeidae, many of which have economic importance.
    • Some 63.1 percent of brackishwater production consists of penaeid shrimps.2006, State of World Aquaculture 2006, page 10

Forms of penaeid

pluralpenaeids

Questions about penaeid

What does penaeid mean?
Penaeid means any prawn of the family Penaeidae, many of which have economic importance.
What part of speech is penaeid?
Penaeid is a noun.
What is the plural of penaeid?
The plural of penaeid is penaeids.

Words near penaeid in the dictionary

  1. pena
  2. penacilin
  3. Penacook
  4. Penado
  5. Penados
  6. penaeid
  7. penaeidean
  8. penaeideans
  9. penaeidin
  10. penaeidins
  11. penaeids

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: penaeid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “penaeid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/penaeid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.