Shrimpling

Quick meaning: Shrimpling is a noun meaning A young or miniature shrimp.

Meaning

A young or miniature shrimp.

Example Sentences

He filled the ponds with water, then dumped in thousands of shrimplings (purchased from hatcheries outside the state) and called the operation Desert Sweet Shrimp.

Their own sky is but a ceiling ringed with painted nymphs, and could I drop one of those shrimplings overboard, just as a great ray is passing, its breadth that of two gentlemen's cloaks, […]

[…] not very unlike a black pin in length and obesity — the gauze-bottomed trays containing the adult shrimp are simply 'shaken over the water,' and innumerable semi-microscopic shrimplings are promptly extruded and drop into the fry-tank […]

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shrimplet, shrimper, shrimpery, shrimpfurter, sharkling, srimp.

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