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fairy shrimp

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fairy shrimp
n.
Any of various transparent freshwater crustaceans of the order Anostraca that lack a carapace and characteristically swim upside-down.
fairy shrimp
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small freshwater branchiopod crustacean of the genera Chirocephalus, Artemia, etc., having a transparent body with many appendages and habitually swimming on its back: order Anostraca
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Noun1.fairy shrimpfairy shrimp - small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back
branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan - aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
Artemia, Chirocephalus, genus Artemia, genus Chirocephalus - fairy shrimp; brine shrimp


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