PRAWN
What does "PRAWN" mean?
An edible shellfish resembling a large shrimp, with a long body and ten legs.
Meanings
- A marine crustacean of the decapod order, larger than most shrimp and eaten as food. We grilled a platter of prawns with garlic and lime.
- To fish for prawns. They went prawning off the jetty at low tide. informal
Did you know?
- 'Prawn' and 'shrimp' have no consistent biological boundary - the split is mostly geographic, with Britain and Australia favoring 'prawn' where Americans say 'shrimp'.
Word origin
From Middle English 'prane', of unknown origin; the word appears in English from the early 15th century with no clear cognate in other languages.
Remember it
PRAWN sounds like 'pawn' with an R - a humble seafood pawn you push onto the grill.
A little poem
Curled like a question
on the coals, it pinks and asks
nothing of the sea.
haiku
Wordplay
- The famous prawn quit chess - it was tired of always being treated like a pawn.
What it teaches
Same creature, different name on each shore: argue less about labels, eat more of the dish.
Quick facts
What does PRAWN mean?
An edible shellfish resembling a large shrimp, with a long body and ten legs.
Is PRAWN a valid word?
Yes — PRAWN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PRAWN?
PRAWN has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does PRAWN come from?
From Middle English 'prane', of unknown origin; the word appears in English from the early 15th century with no clear cognate in other languages.
What can PRAWN teach us?
Same creature, different name on each shore: argue less about labels, eat more of the dish.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.