TADPOLE SHRIMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tadpole shrimp mean? 

• TADPOLE SHRIMP (noun)
  The noun TADPOLE SHRIMP has 1 sense:

1. a kind of branchiopod crustacean

  Familiarity information: TADPOLE SHRIMP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TADPOLE SHRIMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A kind of branchiopod crustacean

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tadpole shrimp" is a kind of...):

branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan (aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding)

Holonyms ("tadpole shrimp" is a member of...):

genus Triops; Triops (type genus of the family Triopidae: small crustaceans with a small third median eye)