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BRITT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does britt mean?
• BRITT (noun)
The noun BRITT has 2 senses:
1. the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish
2. minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
Familiarity information: BRITT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The young of a herring or sprat or similar fish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
brit; britt
Hypernyms ("britt" is a kind of...):
young fish (a fish that is young)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
brit; britt
Hypernyms ("britt" is a kind of...):
copepod; copepod crustacean (minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish)
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