prawn

Any of various shrimps, especially one that is large or inhabits fresh water.

The flesh of a prawn, used as food.

To fish for prawns.

A longtailed ten-footed crustacean, Palæmon serratus, abundant on the shores of Great Britain, resembling the shrimp, but having a long serrate rostrum; hence, any species of the family Palæmonidæ.

Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennæ. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palæmon, Palæmonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palæmon serratus.

A large shrimp.

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To fish for prawns.

shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible

fish for prawns