mysidn.adj.
/ˈmʌɪsɪd/, U.S. /ˈmaɪsɪd/ Zoology.
A. n.
A shrimp-like crustacean of the family Mysidae or the order Mysidacea, which comprises mostly marine forms with stalked compound eyes and a thorax covered by a carapace; an opossum shrimp.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Schizopoda > family Mysidae or genus Mysis > member of
opossum shrimp1828
mysid1876
1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 1875–6 24 575 This is the only Mysid which was got from great depths (1900 and 2500 fathoms).
1927 Glasgow Herald 7 May 4 The somewhat shrimp-like crustaceans called Mysids flex their tails when one taps on the window of the aquarium with a glass rod.
1941 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Sea of Cortez xv. 152 That night we rigged a lamp..and hung it close down to the water... Pelagic isopods and mysids immediately swarmed to the illuminated circle.
1956 A. C. Hardy Open Sea xiii. 254 Many ostracods and copepods, and at least one mysid, are known to flash brightly.
1994 BBC Wildlife Aug. 7/1 They are not true shrimps, rather mysids, distant relatives of Crangon.
B. adj.
Belonging to or designating the family Mysidae or the order Mysidacea; characteristic of mysids.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > of or belonging to Malacostraca > of the Thoracostraca > belonging to Schizopoda > of member of family Mysidae
mysid1876
1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 1875–6 24 591 Possibly this Mysid genus is already described by Sars.
1928 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 216 363 (title) On the embryology of a mysid crustacean.
1975 New Yorker 12 May 80/3 Windowpane flounders eat a lot of mysid shrimp.
1990 Jrnl. Plankton Res. 12 1280 Submersibles offer direct in situ observations of mysid behaviors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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