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Definition of prawn noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

prawn

noun
 
/prɔːn/
 
/prɔːn/
 [countable, uncountable] (especially British English)
(North American English usually shrimp)
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  1. a shellfish that can be eaten, with ten legs and a long tail. Prawns turn pink when cooked.
    • For this recipe you need 250g of peeled prawns.
    Topics Fish and shellfishb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryPrawn is used before these nouns:
    • cocktail
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    Word Originlate Middle English: of unknown origin.
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