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a tiny crustacean whose punch is faster than your reflexes and louder than its size
means A small marine crustacean prized as seafood; also slang for a small or short person.
from From Middle English shrimpe, meaning the little shellfish and, even then, a puny person — the two senses came bundled together. It likely traces back to a Germanic root suggesting something shrunken or contracted, a cousin of words like Middle High German schrimpfen, 'to wrinkle or shrivel.' So the insult isn't a later add-on: the shrimp was a byword for 'tiny thing' from the very beginning.
- sonic punch
- mantis shrimp strike creates light-emitting underwater bubbles
- color vision
- sees up to 16 color receptors, humans have three
- sex switch
- many species change sex during their lifetime
- heart spot
- its heart sits inside its head
gulf coast shrimp fishery — louisiana and texas produce ~90% of us wild shrimp, worth $300+ million annually
penaeus vannamei — farmed white shrimp species, now >50% of global shrimp aquaculture production
sakura ebi — cherry shrimp harvested only in suruga bay, japan, during specific spring/fall seasons
royal reds — deep-water shrimp found 200-300 fathoms off alabama coast, considered delicacy