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shrimpling

shrimpling noun: a young or miniature shrimp.

Noun

shrimpling (plural shrimplings)

  1. A young or miniature shrimp.
    • […] not very unlike a black pin in length and obesity — the gauze-bottomed trays containing the adult shrimp are simply 'shaken over the water,' and innumerable semi-microscopic shrimplings are promptly extruded and drop into the fry-tank […]1903, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing
    • Their own sky is but a ceiling ringed with painted nymphs, and could I drop one of those shrimplings overboard, just as a great ray is passing, its breadth that of two gentlemen's cloaks, […]1989, Brendan Galvin, Wampanoag Traveler

Forms of shrimpling

pluralshrimplings

Origin of shrimpling

From shrimp + -ling.

Questions about shrimpling

What does shrimpling mean?
Shrimpling means a young or miniature shrimp.
What part of speech is shrimpling?
Shrimpling is a noun.
What is the plural of shrimpling?
The plural of shrimpling is shrimplings.

Words near shrimpling in the dictionary

  1. shrimple
  2. shrimpless
  3. shrimplet
  4. shrimplets
  5. shrimplike
  6. shrimpling
  7. shrimplings
  8. shrimpoluminescence
  9. shrimps
  10. shrimps up
  11. Shrimpton

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