pistol shrimp
noun
Any of various marine shrimps of the families Alpheidae and Crangonidae (infraorder Caridea), having one enlarged chela which can be snapped shut with a loud concussion used for defence and for stunning prey; also called snapping prawn, snapping shrimp.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in American Midland Naturalist.
- earth-born
- earthbound
- quaterne
- quaternio
- quaternion
- quaternion group
- quaternionic
- quaternionist
- quaternise
- Quaternitarian
- quaternity
- quaternization
- quaternize
- quatorzain
- quatorze
- Quatorze Juillet
- quatrain
- quatreble
- quatre-couleur
- quatre-couleurs
- quatrefoil
- quatrefoiled
- quatrefoliated
- quatsch
- quattie