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Definition of Fairy shrimp

1. Noun. Small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back.

Definition of Fairy shrimp

1. Noun. A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back. ¹

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Literary usage of Fairy shrimp

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1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"It is only a hint, but with my descriptive memoranda made at the time I had little difficulty in naming my specimen. It is the fairy shrimp ..."

2. Endangered Species Recovery Act: Congressional Hearings edited by John H. Chafee (1999)
"Predictably, recurring debate and prolonged litigation regarding the validity of certain listing decisions has arisen. The vernal pool fairy shrimp ..."

3. Studies of Animal Life: A Series of Laboratory Exercises for the Use of High by Herbert Eugene Walter, Worrallo Whitney, Frederic Colby Lucas (1900)
"... or a more highly organized animal than the crayfish ? What inappropriateness in the word "bug" when applied to this animal ? 4. THE fairy shrimp. ..."

4. The Life of Inland Waters: An Elementary Text Book of Freshwater Biology for by James George Needham, John Thomas Lloyd (1915)
"... and its rich colors fairly shimmering in the light. Of very different appearance is the related mussel- F1G. 90. The fairy shrimp, Chiro- ~.u_: „, „/'! ..."

5. A Source Book of Biological Nature-study by Elliot Rowland Downing (1919)
"crevices when at rest and in the aquarium congregate in the corners. The fairy shrimp.—By far the largest of the common Ento- ..."

6. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"Usually he reported lengths in lines, but in this table the fairy shrimp was measured in ... Jurine believed that the very obvious two eyes of fairy shrimp ..."

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