Definitions for prawn

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Spelling: [prawn]
IPA: /prɔn/

Prawn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in prawn (anprw).

Definitions for prawn

noun

  1. any of various shrimplike decapod crustaceans of the genera Palaemon, Penaeus, etc., certain of which are used as food.

Idioms

  1. come the raw prawn, Australian Slang. to try to impose on or deceive someone (followed by with).

verb (used with object)

  1. to catch prawns, as for food.

Origin of prawn

1400-50; late Middle English prane, of uncertain origin

Examples for prawn

Like most other kinds of crustacea, the prawn is much larger in tropical climates.

After a lunch of prawn curry and rice at the Bunder, you may want to visit the Lighthouse Hill and its vicinity.

prawn COCKTAILThis is also delicious if you replace the shrimp with smoked salmon or cooked crab.

Similar in appearance and often used synonymously—and erroneously—the shrimp and the prawn are two different creatures.

Figs. 37 and 38 represent two stages in the development of the prawn.

He stripped the clothes from each like a man strips the scales from a prawn with one quick twirl of his fingers.

The English lobster is a species, our cray fish is another, our prawn is another.

To tell a live Shrimp from a prawn, look at the long pointed beak which juts out from the front of the head.

The prawn has never been tried on the Shuswap Lake; it might be worth a trial.

But for a prawn curry there is no place like the City of Palaces.

Word Value for prawn
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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