PRAWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prawn mean? 

• PRAWN (noun)
  The noun PRAWN has 2 senses:

1. any of various edible decapod crustaceans

2. shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible

  Familiarity information: PRAWN used as a noun is rare.

• PRAWN (verb)
  The verb PRAWN has 1 sense:

1. fish for prawns

  Familiarity information: PRAWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRAWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various edible decapod crustaceans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

prawn; shrimp

Hypernyms ("prawn" is a kind of...):

seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prawn"):

river prawn (large Australian prawn)

Holonyms ("prawn" is a part of...):

shrimp (small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible)

Holonyms ("prawn" is a substance of...):

shrimp cocktail (a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce)

Derivation:

prawn (fish for prawns)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("prawn" is a kind of...):

decapod; decapod crustacean (crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prawn"):

long-clawed prawn; Palaemon australis; river prawn (large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers)

Holonyms ("prawn" is a member of...):

genus Palaemon; Palaemon (type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus)

Derivation:

prawn (fish for prawns)

• PRAWN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prawn    ... he / she / it prawns   
Past simple: prawned   
Past participle: prawned   
-ing form: prawning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fish for prawns

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "prawn" is one way to...):

fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

In the summer they like to go out and prawn

Derivation:

prawn (shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible)

prawn (any of various edible decapod crustaceans)