sea monkeyn.
1. A heraldic animal which is part monkey, part fish.
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sea monkey1909
1909 A. 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.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Phyllopoda > suborder Branchiopoda > member of genus Artemia
sand flea1796
sea monkey1973
1973 Sunday 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.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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