king prawn

English

Noun

king prawn (plural king prawns)

1. Any of a number of large edible shrimp or similar crustaceans, especially of genus Penaeus.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 136:

     "You got to wait for the tide to run out for prawns. They come down with the tide. And you got to wait till the little ones go down to get the big king-prawns. They always come down last."