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GENUS CAPRELLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Skeleton shrimp
Synonyms:
Caprella; genus Caprella
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Caprella" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "genus Caprella"):
skeleton shrimp (small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweed)
Holonyms ("genus Caprella" is a member of...):
Amphipoda; order Amphipoda (small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp)
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