单词 | brine shrimp |
释义 | brine shrimp in American English any of a genus (Artemia) of small fairy shrimp found in salt lakes and marshes and used as living, frozen, or dried food in aquariums brine shrimp in American Englishnoun a small crustacean, Artemia salina, of the order Anostraca, common to saline lakes, including Great Salt Lake in Utah Word origin [1830–40]This word is first recorded in the period 1830–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: grid, isomerism, orientation, showcase, stroboscopeExamples of 'brine shrimp' in a sentence |
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