Meaning of shrimpling | Babel Free

Definitions

A young or miniature shrimp.

Examples

“[…] not very unlike a black pin in length and obesity — the gauze-bottomed trays containing the adult shrimp are simply 'shaken over the water,' and innumerable semi-microscopic shrimplings are promptly extruded and drop into the fry-tank […]”

“Their own sky is but a ceiling ringed with painted nymphs, and could I drop one of those shrimplings overboard, just as a great ray is passing, its breadth that of two gentlemen's cloaks, […]”

“He filled the ponds with water, then dumped in thousands of shrimplings (purchased from hatcheries outside the state) and called the operation Desert Sweet Shrimp.”

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