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Meaning of झींगा in English

  • Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.
  • To contract; to shrink.
  • Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda.
  • In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
  • In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.
  • Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.

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