mussel shrimp

1. 1.

   tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell

   Synonymsseed shrimpostracod

   Broadercrustacean

   Part ofOstracoda

Questions about mussel shrimp

What does mussel shrimp mean?

mussel shrimp means "tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell".

What is another word for mussel shrimp?

Close synonyms include seed shrimp, ostracod. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mussel shrimp a common word?

mussel 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.