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shrimplings

shrimplings is the plural of shrimpling.

Meaning of shrimpling

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

Questions about shrimplings

What is shrimplings the plural of?
Shrimplings is the plural of shrimpling.

Words near shrimplings in the dictionary

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

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