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🦐 Shrimp
Also known as: Prawn
Unicode: U+1F990
Description
A shrimp (prawn), a small crustacean with a long tail. Generally depicted as a reddish-orange shrimp (as cooked) in full profile facing left, with tiny eyes, many limbs, and its long antennae curling back as its long tail curls in. May be consumed in the form of 🍤 Fried Shrimp or 🥘 Shallow Pan of Food. Often used to represent seafood. The antennae of Apple’s shrimp curls under its body. The body of Facebook’s shrimp is straight. Google and Samsung’s shrimp previously faced right.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:3.0
Unicode Version:9.0
Keywords
foodshellfishshrimpsmall
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :shrimp: | |
| GitHub | :shrimp: | |
| Slack | :shrimp: | |
| Discord | :shrimp: |
Additional Information
Category:Supplemental Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:
Shrimp was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016. Copy and paste this emoji: Copy New in iOS 10.2 http://emojipedia.org/shrimp/
Verbs:
- Fish for shrimp
Nouns:
- Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- Flesh of the crustacean.
- The term shrimp is used to refer to some decapod crustaceans, although the exact animals covered can vary.
- Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- A decapod crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
- An aquatic invertebrate, such as a mollusc or crustacean, that has a shell.
- Meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
- Shellfish is a culinary and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.
- Aquatic food that has a shell.
- An aquatic invertebrate, such as a mollusc or crustacean, that has a shell, especially as food.
- A culinary term for aquatic invertebrates used as food: molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.
- Any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. For prepared ready-to-eat food, use dish: Q746549.