fairy shrimp

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   small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back

   Broaderbranchiopod crustacean

   Part ofArtemia

Questions about fairy shrimp

What does fairy shrimp mean?

fairy shrimp means "small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back".

Is fairy shrimp a common word?

fairy shrimp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.