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SHRIMP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("shrimp" is a kind of...):
decapod; decapod crustacean (crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax)
Meronyms (parts of "shrimp"):
pleopod; swimmeret (one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming)
prawn; shrimp (any of various edible decapod crustaceans)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shrimp"):
pistol shrimp; snapping shrimp (small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae)
Holonyms ("shrimp" is a member of...):
Crangonidae; family Crangonidae (shrimps)
Derivation:
shrimp (fish for shrimp)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of various edible decapod crustaceans
Synonyms:
prawn; shrimp
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("shrimp" is a kind of...):
seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shrimp"):
river prawn (large Australian prawn)
Holonyms ("shrimp" is a part of...):
shrimp (small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible)
Holonyms ("shrimp" is a substance of...):
shrimp cocktail (a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce)
Derivation:
shrimp (fish for shrimp)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Disparaging terms for small people
Synonyms:
half-pint; peewee; runt; shrimp
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("shrimp" is a kind of...):
small person (a person of below average size)
Derivation:
shrimpy ((used especially of persons) of inferior size)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fish for shrimp
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "shrimp" is one way to...):
fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
In the summer they like to go out and shrimp
Derivation:
shrimp (small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible)
shrimp (any of various edible decapod crustaceans)
shrimper (a vessel engaged in shrimping)
Context examples:
He meant Ham, who beamed with delight and assent over the bag of shrimps.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A new study provides insight into how the small brains of mantis shrimp — fierce predators with keen vision — may process and integrate visual information with other sensory input.
(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)
Mr. Peggotty, to relieve it, took two prodigious lobsters, and an enormous crab, and a large canvas bag of shrimps, out of his pockets, and piled them up in Ham's arms.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A team of researchers examined the neuronal organization of mantis shrimp and discovered a region of their brain called the reniform body.
(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)
with the tidings that Mrs. Micawber was in an alarming state, upon which he immediately burst into tears, and came away with me with his waistcoat full of the heads and tails of shrimps, of which he had been partaking.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Nicholas Strausfeld of the University of Arizona teamed up with other researchers to better understand how the reniform bodies connect to other parts of the mantis shrimp brain.
(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)
Mantis shrimp seem to be able to process all the different channels of information with the participation of the reniform body.
(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)
