squilla

[ skwil-uh ]

noun

, plural squil·las, squil·lae [skwil, -ee].

1. mantis shrimp.

squilla

/ ˈskwɪlə /

noun

1. any mantis shrimp of the genus Squilla

Word History and Origins

Origin of squilla¹

From Latin, dating back to 1650–60; squill

Word History and Origins

Origin of squilla¹

C16: from Latin squilla shrimp, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

There are the little shrimps and the big hump-backed fellows, or prawns; there are the ‘crangons’ or squillae; and the big lobsters and the crawfish or ‘langoustes’, their spiny cousins.

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Spawn of fish, minute mollusca, the small classes of squilla and cancer, are known to voyagers as causing a discolouration of the sea in particular places.

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Among these were some individuals of the squilla tribe, which, though one of the tenderest of the crustaceous family, had not suffered the least injury from pressure or friction.

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There are other crustaceans, next-door neighbors of the squilla, whose gills are still more simplified.

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What would you have thought of the poor little squilla, so prettily baptised by the fishermen, if I had taught you that it belonged to the order of Stomatopoda?

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