Meanings
nounfairy shrimp (plural fairy shrimps or fairy shrimp)
plural fairy shrimps
- A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.
Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in drought conditions. They live in the ground in eggs until weather conditions such as floods can bring them to the surface, says IFL Science.
2023 September 5, Amelia Neath, “Three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ are waking up in the desert after Burning Man washout”, in The Independent
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