| 单词 | fairy shrimp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy shrimp fairy shrimp n. any of numerous small branchiopod crustaceans constituting the order Anostraca, which swim upside down (i.e. with the ventral surface and appendages uppermost) and are typically found in temporary freshwater pools and saline lakes; esp. the European Chirocephalus diaphanus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > miscellaneous types fairy shrimp1857 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > miscellaneous types > member of genus Chirocephalus fairy shrimp1938 1857 A. White Pop. Hist. Brit. Crustacea 263 The Fairy Shrimp seems to live on dead animal or vegetable matter. 1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies iii. 280 The rainbow-colored fairy shrimps gliding slowly and gracefully through the icy waters of some March pool. 1938 H. Mellanby Animal Life in Fresh Water vii. 70 In Britain there is only one species of fairy shrimp which is found commonly, and this is Chirocephalus diaphanus. 2003 High Country News 10 Nov. 11/2 Close to 97 percent of the country's vernal pools—the seasonal pools filled by rain that support endangered fairy shrimp—are gone. < as lemmas |
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