mantis shrimp
Noun
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Noun
mantis shrimp (plural mantis shrimps)
- A stomatopod, a marine crustacean of the order Stomatopoda, with powerful claws and a carapace which covers only the rear part of the head and part of the thorax
- prawn killer (Australia)
- French: squille, crevette-mante
- German: Fangschreckenkrebs
- Italian: canocchia
- Portuguese: tamarutaca, lagosta-gafanhoto, lacraia-do-mar (Brazil)
- Russian: ротоно́г
- Spanish: galera, langosta mantis
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