ghost shrimp

noun

1. a shrimplike crustacean of the genus Callianassa, of the Pacific coast of North America, having a pinkish, transparent body.

Example Sentences

From several types of frogs and a Madagascan dragonfly, to a ghost shrimp and prehistoric sea creature, the list is impressive.

From BBC

Researchers say a small group of gray whales that stops in Puget Sound on their annual migration, known as “the Sounders,” have been known to teach themselves how to feed on ghost shrimp burrowed in mud flats, often in shallow near-shore waters.

From Seattle Times

In the summer, the Salish Sea shorelines teem with spawning herring, drawing humpback leviathans; gray whales swim right up to the beach to suck ghost shrimp out of the mud; and the return of chinook salmon brings home our three native pods of southern resident orcas.

From Seattle Times

She looks more like the ghost shrimp I saw once at the Albuquerque aquarium.

From Literature

But instead of our parents’ pods, the room’s back wall is a stack of beehive beds, each covered in a warming blanket for a thin-skinned ghost shrimp.

From Literature