| NOUN | food | prawn, shrimp | any of various edible decapod crustaceans |
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| animal | prawn | shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers | |
| VERB | contact | prawn | fish for prawns |
| Sounds | prao'n | |
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| Rhymes | Amon ... yawn: 34 rhymes with aon... | |
| Meaning | Any of various edible decapod crustaceans. | |
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| Synonym | shrimp | |
| Part of | shrimp | small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers |
| Narrower | river prawn | large Australian prawn |
| Broader | seafood | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc |
| Substance of | shrimp cocktail | A cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce |
| Spanish | camarón, gamba | |
| Catalan | gamba | |
| Verbs | prawn | fish for prawns |
| Meaning | Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible. | |
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| Member of | Palaemon, genus Palaemon | type genus of the family Palaemonidae |
| Narrower | long-clawed prawn, river prawn, Palaemon australis | large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers |
| Broader | decapod crustacean, decapod | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax |
| Verbs | prawn | fish for prawns |
| Meaning | fish for prawns. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Model | In the summer they like to go out and prawn | |
| Broader | fish | catch or try to catch fish or shellfish |
| Nouns | prawn | shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers |
| prawn | any of various edible decapod crustaceans | |
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