skeleton shrimp
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Noun (1)
- small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweedType of amphipodMember of Caprella, genus Caprella
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Spector shrimp, Skeleton shrimp
Zoology, any slender amphipod crustacean of the genus Caprella and allied genera.
From the entry Shrimp.
Skeleton shrimp
Zoology, a small crustacean of the genus Caprella. See Illust. under Laemodipoda.
From the entry Skeleton.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54