Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Caprellidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus somprising the skeleton shrimp.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun skeleton shrimp
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Of the silky-haird caprella, and the gentle lowing kine15
Theocritus 1895
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