How many syllables in shrimps?

There is 1 syllable in the word shrimps.

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shrimps (noun):: a small crustacean (such as an amphipod or a branchiopod) resembling the true shrimp; any of numerous mostly small and marine decapod crustaceans (suborders dendrobranchiata and pleocyemata) having a slender elongated body, a compressed abdomen, and a long spiny rostrum and including some (especially family penaeidae) that are commercially important as food

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