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sea monkey
1. A heraldic animal which is part monkey, part fish.
1909A. C. Fox-Davies Compl. Guide Heraldry xiii. 230 It may be as well to allude to the asserted heraldic existence of the sea-monkey, though I am not aware of any instance in which it is borne.
2. A brine shrimp, Artemia salina, often used as food for fish in aquaria.
1973Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 3 June 6/2 ‘Sea monkeys’..are currently booming in the United States. They come as a parcel of eggs that look like dried crystal. But..after the eggs are dropped into water they grow into what looks like sea shrimp. 1976‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird ii. 29 ‘They're Sea Monkeys.’.. ‘Brine shrimps... Fish eat them.’ |