brine shrimp
noun
a small crustacean, Artemia salina, of the order Anostraca, common to saline lakes, including Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Origin of brine shrimp
1First recorded in 1830–40
Words Nearby brine shrimp
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How to use brine shrimp in a sentence
The feathers get their red color from carotenoids, molecules responsible for many natural pigments, found in the birds’ steady diet of brine shrimp and algae.
Flamingos dye their sun-faded feathers to stay pretty in pink | Rebecca Dzombak | October 26, 2021 | Science NewsMore importantly, it’s up to 10 times the swimming speeds of crustaceans and fish roughly as big as the larvae, and more than 150 times those of young brine shrimp that the researchers fed them.
Mantis shrimp start practicing their punches at just 9 days old | Charles Choi | April 29, 2021 | Science News
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