Prawns in example sentence

As he brought it to the surface again he saw in it threelarge transparent prawns, caught blindfold in their hiding-place.

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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.

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.

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

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

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