opossum shrimp

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   shrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs

   Broadermalacostracan crustacean

   Part ofMysisPraunus

Questions about opossum shrimp

What does opossum shrimp mean?

opossum shrimp means "shrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs".

Is opossum shrimp a common word?

opossum 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.