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Answer for the clue "Shrimplike decapod ", 5 letters:
prawn

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Prawns may refer to either of two groups of crustaceans: Dendrobranchiata , including genera such as Penaeus , Sergestes and Acetes More generally, it may be used for shrimp and prawns It may also refer to: Prawn (band) , American indie rock band An extraterrestrial ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prawn \Prawn\, n. [OE. prane, of unknown origin; cf. L. perna a sea mussel.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antenn[ae]. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus , Pal[ae]mon , Pal[ae]monetes ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A large shrimp, mostly in order Dendrobranchiat 2 (context slang English) A woman with a very toned body, but an unattractive face. v (context intransitive English) To fish for prawns.

Usage examples of prawn.

The prawns turned pink as she stirred them into the spice mixture, and she dumped in cold, cooked basmati rice and a generous slurp of ketjap--Indonesian soy sauce.

Milton oyster, the plaice sound and firm, the flounder as much alive as when in the water, the shrimp as big as a prawn, the fine cod alive but a few hours ago, or any other of the various treasures which those water-deities who fish the sea and rivers have committed to the care of the nymphs, the angry Naiades lift up their immortal voices, and the prophane wretch is struck deaf for his impiety.

The grown-up people sat in groups on the edge of the dunes and read and gossiped, or took a turn towards Porth, or perhaps tried to catch prawns in the rock-pools at the other end of the sands.

And the prawns and the crayfish and the rockling, they swam in and out above their heads: but Don Guzman he never heeded, but sat still, and drank his wine.

We both decided the halibut dieppoise with a salp icon of prawns and leeks sounded good and settled for that.

Jennings had excelled herself: a terrine of leeks and prawns in a delicate sauce, red mullet with thyme, and raspberries and cream.

Hatred is a soft word for what I felt toward him, but while I was sitting at that table, eating prawns and then lamb, the spinach and potatoes, drinking the Merlot, which was excellent by the way, smooth and dark, while I was sitting at that table, my emotions softened.

The Soviets and North Koreans had plundered the vast natural prawn beds and fisheries of the rich warm Mozambican current along the eastern coast, while foreign adventurers with Frefimo licenses and approval had decimated the crocodile population of Lake Cabora Bossa.

For some reason they always seemed to be the most horrible flavors like Prawn cocktail.

The little river with the mysterious name had its source in the Radaune Lakes in the district of Berent, flowed, rich in fish and prawns, past Petershagen, and entered the city to one side of the New Market.

Zen mistress make seaweed chestnut duck prawn thick noodle beancurd beef and rice.

What prawns tabasco and Poule au Pot had begun, the Chambertin '64 and its successor, a refined vinegar that Sir Giles chose to imagine was a Chablis, had completed.

More correctly, they were given a splendid selection of food to eat -- chicken, turtle eggs, warmed rice, durians, crushed prawns, yams, sweet boiled roots and dried fish: but hunger had long since died, they had lived too long with starvation to do anything but token justice to the spread before them.

It was a pungent mass of vats and piles of shaved ice topped with sixty-pound yellowtails and huge albacores, barrels of writhing crabs the size of dinner plates, mounds of three-inch prawns, rock lobsters, abalone by the gross, oysters bigger than his fist, ling and flounder, cauldrons of shrimp… Knives flashed and paper-wrapped parcels were handed out to shoppers.

All I wanted was that chicken jalfrezi, the prawn bhuna, and the rice.