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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