brown shrimp

noun

Crangon crangon, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea.

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Meanings

nounbrown shrimp (countable and uncountable, plural brown shrimp or brown shrimps)

plural brown shrimps

  1. Any of various types of shrimp.
    1. countableuncountableCrangon crangon, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea.
    2. countableuncountableFarfantepenaeus aztecus, found in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
    3. countableuncountableFarfantepenaeus subtilis, found in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean as far north as Cuba.
    4. countableuncountableMetapenaeus monoceros, an Indo-Pacific species and Lessepsian migrant.
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