Prawns in example sentence

As for the local fauna, it included thousands of crustaceans of every type: lobsters, hermit crabs, prawns, mysid shrimps, daddy longlegs, rock crabs, and a prodigious number of seashells, such as cowries, murex snails, and limpets.

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Among the Macrura (which are subdivided into five families: hardshells, burrowers, crayfish, prawns, and ghost crabs) Conseil mentions some common spiny lobsters whose females supply a meat highly prized, slipper lobsters or common shrimp, waterside gebia shrimp, and all sorts of edible species, but he says nothing of the crayfish subdivision that includes the true lobster, because spiny lobsters are the only type in the Mediterranean.

She is so finiky about her pleasures; and, besides, she has a mania for prawns."

"Ah! ha!" cried he, "you catch prawns here?"

He wanted to buy the netsspecially constructed for fishing prawns, not unlike those used forcatching butterflies in the country.

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