Definition of prawns Prawns
/pɹɔˈnz/ - [pronz] -
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- prawns (Noun)
Plural of prawn.
Part of speech
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| prawn - any of various edible decapod crustaceans | ||
| shrimp | ||
| seafood edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc | ||
| shrimp small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible | ||
| shrimp cocktail a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce | ||
| prawn - shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible | ||
| decapod crustacean, decapod crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax | ||
| genus palaemon, palaemon type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus | ||
Verb |
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| prawn - fish for prawns | ||
| fish catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends" | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- prawn (n.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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prawn
prawn, n. a small edible crustacean like the shrimp. [L. perna, a mussel.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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prawn
A marine crustacean larger than a shrimp, much esteemed as an article of food.
Wikipedia 
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The prawn is a crustacean. It is similar to the shrimp, but the gills are different. Prawns are in the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
Prawns are commercially fished, and used for cooking. In that context, the difference between prawn and a shrimp is usually that prawn are larger than shrimp.
