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Prawn

noun

Any of various edible decapod crustaceans. Synonym: shrimp.

Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible.

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"Prawn" Quotes from Famous Books

... sort of little catherine-wheely design in black going over it but not too much, awfully smart; and the other is a sort of buffy; one zephyr, the other cotton, and the skirt is a sort of mixey pepper and salt with lumps in the weaving—you know how I mean, something like our prawn dresses only lighter and much more refined. The duffer is going to join the tennis-club—he was at the Pooles' dance. I was ...

— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson

... at the facts of thy last long letter, and they are just such as might have befallen any little truant of the High School, who had got down to Leith Sands, gone beyond the PRAWN-DUB, wet his hose and shoon, and, finally, had been carried home, in compassion, by some high-kilted fishwife, cursing all the while the trouble ...

— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

Words linked to "Prawn" : decapod, decapod crustacean, fish, Palaemon, seafood, Palaemon australis, genus Palaemon, river prawn, shrimp cocktail