| 单词 | water shrimp |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater shrimp water shrimp n. now rare any of various shrimplike crustaceans living in fresh water; esp. an amphipod of the genus Gammarus or family Gammaridae, as the common European Gammarus pulex (now usually called freshwater shrimp). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > miscellaneous or unspecified types of shrimp beard1611 shrimplet1688 garnel1694 water shrimp1745 pandle1746 brine-shrimp1836 brine-worm1836 squilloid1852 well shrimp1853 glass-crab1855 shrimp1856 snapping shrimp1941 1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June xi. 72 Of the Water-shrimp.—I have seen a Sort of Insect, in stagnate Waters, to swim on his Side in a swift Motion, almost in Shape like a Sea-shrimp, very transparent. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads iii. 21 The water-shrimp is the favourite bait for them [sc. perch]. 1941 J. Hux UOM V. 158 In Lake Baikal the water-shrimps of the sandhopper family exist in numerous species unknown elsewhere. 2009 O. Giere Meiobenthology (ed. 2) v. 179 Cladocerans..and ostracods..do have some traits in common. In both the ‘water fleas’ and the ‘water shrimps’, a short body of only a few segments is enclosed in two protective shells. < as lemmas |
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