'Brine shrimp' definitions:
Definition of 'brine shrimp'
From: WordNet
noun
Common to saline lakes [syn: brine shrimp, Artemia salina]
Definition of 'Brine shrimp'
From: GCIDE
- Brine \Brine\, n. [AS. bryne a burning, salt liquor, brine, fr. brinnan, brynnan, to burn. See Burn.]
- 1. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. [1913 Webster]
- Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Tears; -- so called from their saltness. [1913 Webster]
- What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Brine fly (Zool.), a fly of the genus Ephydra, the larv[ae] of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes.
- Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid.
- Brine pan, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization.
- Brine pit, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.
- Brine pump (Marine Engin.), a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which collects at the bottom.
- Brine shrimp, Brine worm (Zool.), a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia.
- Brine spring, a spring of salt water.
- Leach brine (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again. [1913 Webster]