grass shrimp

noun

1

: any of several slender shrimps (genus Hippolyte) common among eelgrass along the Pacific coast of North America

2

: a small transparent freshwater shrimp (genus Palaemonetes) of the southeastern U.S. that is often used as fishing bait

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