grass shrimp

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Noun

grass shrimp (plural grass shrimps)

  1. Certain shrimp of North American waters
    1. of genus Hippolyte that live in eelgrass along of the Pacific coast of North America.
    2. of genus Palaemon of the Atlantic, used for bait.
    Synonym: Palaemonetes

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