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- adjective Resembling a
shrimp .
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Examples
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Those are eyes on stalks up there on the head, and the "shrimplike" appendages serve to push food into its mouth.
Science 2009
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Those are eyes on stalks up there on the head, and the "shrimplike" appendages serve to push food into its mouth.
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Those are eyes on stalks up there on the head, and the "shrimplike" appendages serve to push food into its mouth.
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Those are eyes on stalks up there on the head, and the "shrimplike" appendages serve to push food into its mouth.
December 2008 2008
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Or consider the mako shark that fed on the barracuda that fed on the fish that fed on the lugworms and tiny shrimplike crustaceans that dined on the tiny granular fragments of plastic that have been steadily accumulating in the environment over the past forty years.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Or consider the mako shark that fed on the barracuda that fed on the fish that fed on the lugworms and tiny shrimplike crustaceans that dined on the tiny granular fragments of plastic that have been steadily accumulating in the environment over the past forty years.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Most other whales don't have teeth at all and filter-feed on plankton or shrimplike krill.
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These small, shrimplike animals are dependent upon the sea ice, and the decrease in this ice has greatly impacted their life cycle.
The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010
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Most other whales don't have teeth at all and filter-feed on plankton or shrimplike krill.
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The design is based on an extinct shrimplike invertebrate.
Walking Vehicles, Part 1 James Gurney 2008
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