Definitions for fairy shrimp
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
fair′y shrimp`(n.)
any transparent branchiopod crustacean of the order Anostraca, of freshwater ponds.
Category: Invertebrates
Origin of fairy shrimp:
1855–60
Princeton's WordNet
fairy shrimp(noun)
small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back
Wiktionary
fairy shrimp(Noun)
A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.
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