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Prawn   Listen
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Prawn  n.  (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus. Note: The name is often applied to any large shrimp.






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"Prawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... black going over it but not too much, awfully smart; and the other is a sort of buffy; one zephyr, the other cotton, and the skirt is a sort of mixey pepper and salt with lumps in the weaving—you know how I mean, something like our prawn dresses only lighter and much more refined. The duffer is going to join the tennis-club—he was at the Pooles' dance. I was simply flabbergasted. He's ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson

... at breakfast that prawns were the day's quarry, and the foreshore round Cobo Bay the hunting-ground. And to Cobo, accordingly, we would set out. This prawn-yielding area extends along the coast on the other side of St. Peter's Port, where two halts had to be made, one at Madame Garnier's, the confectioners, the other at the library, to get fiction, which I never read. Then came ...
— Not George Washington - An Autobiographical Novel • P. G. Wodehouse

... in the vernal vale, In adumbration of azure awe, And I listlessly list in my swallow-tail To the limpet licking his limber jaw. And it's O for the sound of the daffodil, For the dry distillings of prawn and prout, When hope hops high and a heather hill Is a dear delight and a darksome doubt. The snagwap sits in the bosky brae And sings to the gumplet in accents sweet; The gibwink hasn't a word to say, But pensively smiles ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

... prevent the fish from sticking. Broil the slices thoroughly, turning them with steak tongs. Send them to table hot, wrapped in the folds of a napkin that has been heated. Serve up with them anchovy, or prawn, ...
— Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches • Eliza Leslie



Words linked to "Prawn" :   tropical prawn, long-clawed prawn, Palaemon, shrimp, decapod crustacean, decapod, Palaemon australis, genus Palaemon, fish, mantis prawn



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