tadpole shrimp

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   a kind of branchiopod crustacean

   Broaderbranchiopod crustacean

   Part ofTriops

Questions about tadpole shrimp

What does tadpole shrimp mean?

tadpole shrimp means "a kind of branchiopod crustacean".

Is tadpole shrimp a common word?

tadpole 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.