snapping shrimp
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of snapping shrimp
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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A healthy coral reef is noisy, full of the croaks, purrs, and grunts of various fishes and the crackling of snapping shrimp.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024
To test this idea, they glued the goggles shut on some snapping shrimp, preventing water from exiting the orbital hood.
From Scientific American • Jul. 14, 2022
“For example, we can calculate the number of snaps per minute in an ecosystem, to determine whether snapping shrimp crackle fills the ecosystem,” Williams says.
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2022
The pistol, or snapping shrimp, has an ability to generate sonic energy by closing their enlarged claw at rapid speed.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2017
Terabytes of recordings showed that under natural circumstances, the bays were loudest at night with sounds of snapping shrimp and clicking dolphins on their group hunts.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 1, 2016
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