grass shrimp

grass shrimp
noun
1. : any of several slender shrimps (genus Hippolyte) common among eelgrass along the Pacific coast of No. America
2. : a small transparent freshwater shrimp (genus Palaemonetes) of the southeastern United States that is often used as bait by fishermen

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