pistol shrimp

Questions about pistol shrimp

What is another word for pistol shrimp?

It depends which pistol shrimp you mean. In the sense “small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae”, the synonyms are snapping shrimp. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pistol shrimp?

WordNet records no antonym for pistol shrimp. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pistol shrimp come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pistol shrimp

• Full entry for pistol shrimpAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pistol shrimpWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.