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    FAIRY SHRIMP

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its backplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("fairy shrimp" is a kind of...):

    branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan (aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding)

    Holonyms ("fairy shrimp" is a member of...):

    Artemia; Chirocephalus; genus Artemia; genus Chirocephalus (fairy shrimp; brine shrimp)

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