noun
type genus of the family Peneidae
• Syn: ↑genus Peneus
• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Peneidae, ↑family Peneidae
• Member Meronyms: ↑tropical prawn
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\\pə̇ˈnēəs\ nounUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, probably from Latin Peneus, river in northwestern Peloponnesus, Greece, from Greek Pēneios
: a genus (the type of the family Peneidae) of edible prawns with well-developed rostrum and exopodites on all but the last pair of legs
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/peuh nee"euhs/, n.
ancient name of Salambria.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.