• But their place has been taken by prawns, now one of the biggest fisheries around the British Isles.
  • The giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) is an important species for aquaculture. Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs...
  • Large-scale fishers concentrate on production for urban and export markets (especially prawns for export)...
  • These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'prawn.'
  • A good example of how input controls work is the juvenile king prawn closure near the mouth of the Richmond River at Ballina.
  • A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce.
  • First attested early 1400s as various Middle English forms prayne, prane, praune, and prawne, which present no clear cognates in languages other than English.
  • The derogatory term Prawn is used for the alien, and obviously it implies something that is a bottom feeder, that scavenges the leftovers.