The Prawn frequents rocky coasts, where it may often be obtained in large numbers by sweeping with a suitable net under the cover of weeds and stones.
A small fish or a prawn is perfectly helpless when once it is seized by the creature's tentacles.
Thus, one may desire to examine the structure and appendages of a prawn or small crab, or to investigate the nature of a chiton.
THE PRAWN (Palaemon serratus)] In addition to the common species mentioned there are quite a number of shrimps and prawns to be found in our seas, but some of them inhabit deep water and are rarely to be found between the tide-marks.
THE PRAWN is not unlike the shrimp, but exceeds it considerably in size, its length being between three and four inches.
The last time he'd been here, Kellogg had had him on the carpet about that land-prawn business.
The constabulary at Post Fifteen had made steel chopper-diggers for their Fuzzies, and reported a gratifying abatement of the land-prawn nuisance.
By late afternoon, when they were finished, the Fuzzies came out for a frolic and prawn hunt.
Another land-prawn seemed to have gotten into the house; its picked shell was with the other rubbish in the basket.
The limiting factor on land-prawn increase is the weather.
When he returned to the camp, Little Fuzzy was picking another land-prawn apart in front of the living hut.
Jack followed him with the camera and got movies of a couple of prawn killings, accomplished with smooth, by-the-numbers precision.
It was out and the safety off before the flint landed; as the prawn fled, he fired from the hip.
He'd seen crushed prawn shells, some of them close to his camp.
Besides being a most efficient land-prawn eradicator, he made a first rate alarm clock.
The he began pulling the deadprawn apart, tearing out pieces of meat and eating them delicately.
To move quickly, the Shrimp orPrawn merely bends his body, then straightens it.
The Shrimp and Prawn and Lobster are relations of the Crab; these crustaceans, as they are called, are all cased up in a hard crust, which will not stretch the slightest little bit.
When the Prawn or Shrimp is not in a hurry, he swims slowly but surely with the little paddles, or "swimmerets.
The hard, shelly covering of the Shrimp and Prawn is like the armour of the crab--it will not stretch in the least.
They strike the water with great force, and so send the Prawn or Shrimp quickly backwards.
The artificial minnow of various kinds, the spoon, and the dead bait on a crocodile or Archer spinner are all used, and the prawn has lately been tried with deadly effect on large fish.
The prawn has never been tried on the Shuswap Lake; it might be worth a trial.
Large trout have been taken on the prawn in the coast rivers; but it is possible that they were sea-trout and not rainbows.
He took some fresh bait from his prawn bag and fixed it in the thirts of my nets.
It was something of an adventure afterwards to put a hand into the pocketful of lobster claws and prawn spines.
The sides of these limbs are covered with hairs, so that they form little brushes; and with these the prawn carefully cleans its body and limbs, rubbing off every little speck of dirt which may happen to cling to them.
You can easily tell a prawn from a shrimp, for the beak which projects in front of its head is covered with sharp points, which are almost exactly like the teeth of a saw.
So on we went, one poking about among the weeds till the prawn darted backwards into the nets held ready, and we had soon been able to muster over a dozen.
The baskets were set down and we were soon hard at work catching prawn after prawn; but, though we peered into every crack, and routed about as far as we could reach, there was no sign of a lobster large or small.
Then on and on with our numbers always increasing, for we passed very few pools that did not contain one prawn at least.
More distant resemblances connect the lobster with the prawn and the crab, which are expressed by putting all these into the same order.
The English lobster is a species, our cray fish is another, our prawn is another.
Among the commonest of these designs are those known as the prawn and the dog (see Chap.
An extreme modification of the dog design to form a prawn is shown in Pl.
A PRAWN CURRY I have seen made in Calcutta as follows, the proportions of spices, etc.
But for a prawn curry there is no place like the City of Palaces.
They have innumerable horse races, eat prawn curry, are prodigiously hospitable, and in odd hours grow tea.
We drove through the Cinnamon gardens, where the still air was heavy with the delicious scent, and out to Mount Lavinia, where, of course, we ate prawn curry.
In tropical climates the prawn attains the size of a small lobster--up to nine or ten inches in length, three being considered sufficient for a meal.
The prawnand shrimp are included in the same order as the lobster and the crab, and species of these crustaceans are found in all seas.
I'll get you a nice prawn curry for the sake of old times, late though it is.
Was it possible the girl did not know that he was now a married man, and had no intention of continuing the acquaintance of his bachelor days or of eating prawn curry in Vepery again?
Well, maybe it's truth that you've grown such a grand toff and you'll want to fight shy of prawn curry and all that.
I'll just hand it on to my poor mother to pay for the prawn curries she wasted on an ungrateful toad!
A Prawn had been induced in this way to place particles of iron filings in the cavities, and a strong electro-magnet was brought near the side of the vessel in which it was kept.
Alcock mentions that a deep-sea Prawn of the genus Psathyrocaris, although only about 3-1/2 inches long, has eggs nearly a quarter of an inch in length.
It is not uncommon to find specimens of the common Prawn (Leander serratus) which have a large swelling on one side of the carapace.
A large species of Prawn is now imported to this country in considerable quantities from Norway.
The largest of the native species, to which the name of Common Prawn is perhaps most properly restricted, is Leander serratus.
Like a true soldier, like a knight of chivalry, the Prawn lives, eats, sleeps in armour.
This portion is, during rest, thrown-in under the body, much more completely than a true lobster or prawn can do it, and yet is by no means so permanently set in that position as in the true crabs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prawn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clam; crab; limpet; lobster; oyster; prawn; scallop; shellfish; shrimp; snail; steamer; whelk
