skeleton shrimp

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   small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweed

   Broaderamphipod

   Part ofCaprella

Questions about skeleton shrimp

What does skeleton shrimp mean?

skeleton shrimp means "small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweed".

Is skeleton shrimp a common word?

skeleton 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.