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prawn

/prawn/US // prɔn //UK // (prɔːn) //

大虾,虾仁,虾,虾米

Related Words

clam蛤蜊,蛤蛤,蛤,蛤蛎crustacean甲壳类动物,甲壳动物,甲壳纲动物,甲壳动物类mollusk软体动物snail蜗牛,螺蛳壳,蜗居,螺蛳粉scallop扇贝,扇贝类,扇贝壳,扇叶conch海螺,海螺号,螺号,贝壳crawfish小龙虾,小龙鱼,龙虾,虾类shrimp小虾,虾子,小虾米,虾米lobster龙虾,龙虾类,龙须菜,龙虾类的mussel贻贝,蚌壳,贝壳,贝壳类oyster牡蛎,牡蛎类,牡丹,牡蛎类的barnacle藤壶whelk海螺,海螺号,海螺的作用,麦穗piddock匹兹堡,匹多莫德,匹敌,匹兹堡人crayfish小龙虾,龙虾,螯虾,鳌虾

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various shrimplike decapod crustaceans of the genera Palaemon, Penaeus, etc., certain of which are used as food.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to catch prawns, as for food.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inshellfish
Synonyms
clam蛤蜊,蛤蛤,蛤,蛤蛎conch海螺,海螺号,螺号,贝壳crawfish小龙虾,小龙鱼,龙虾,虾类crustacean甲壳类动物,甲壳动物,甲壳纲动物,甲壳动物类lobster龙虾,龙虾类,龙须菜,龙虾类的mollusk软体动物mussel贻贝,蚌壳,贝壳,贝壳类oyster牡蛎,牡蛎类,牡丹,牡蛎类的scallop扇贝,扇贝类,扇贝壳,扇叶shrimp小虾,虾子,小虾米,虾米snail蜗牛,螺蛳壳,蜗居,螺蛳粉barnacle藤壶crayfish小龙虾,龙虾,螯虾,鳌虾piddock匹兹堡,匹多莫德,匹敌,匹兹堡人whelk海螺,海螺号,海螺的作用,麦穗

Examples

  • PRAWN COCKTAILThis is also delicious if you replace the shrimp with smoked salmon or cooked crab.

  • Similar in appearance and often used synonymously—and erroneously—the shrimp and the prawn are two different creatures.

  • After a lunch of prawn curry and rice at the Bunder, you may want to visit the Lighthouse Hill and its vicinity.

  • Among them are the shrimp and prawn, thin-shelled, active crustaceans common along our eastern coast.

  • They strike the water with great force, and so send the Prawn or Shrimp quickly backwards.

  • To move quickly, the Shrimp or Prawn merely bends his body, then straightens it.

  • When the Prawn or Shrimp is not in a hurry, he swims slowly but surely with the little paddles, or "swimmerets."

  • To tell a live Shrimp from a Prawn, look at the long pointed beak which juts out from the front of the head.

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