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rockhopper

rockhopper noun: a rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes spp.).

Noun

rockhopper (plural rockhoppers)

  1. A rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes spp.).
  2. Any of the order Archaeognatha of jumping bristletails.
  3. A disk on the bottom of a trawler-net that lifts when it hits a rock or bump, raising the net, preventing damage to the net or the seafloor.

rockhopper meaning in Bengali

rockhopper in Bengali

এক ধরনের রকহপার পেঙ্গুইন

Forms of rockhopper

pluralrockhoppers

Origin of rockhopper

From rock + hopper.

Phrases with rockhopper

Questions about rockhopper

What does rockhopper mean?
Rockhopper means a rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes spp.).
What is rockhopper in Bengali?
Rockhopper in Bengali is এক ধরনের রকহপার পেঙ্গুইন. See Rockhopper meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is rockhopper?
Rockhopper is a noun.
What is the plural of rockhopper?
The plural of rockhopper is rockhoppers.

Words near rockhopper in the dictionary

  1. Rockhills
  2. Rockhold
  3. Rockholds
  4. rockhole
  5. rockholes
  6. rockhopper
  7. rockhopper penguin
  8. rockhopper penguins
  9. rockhoppers
  10. rockhound
  11. rockhounding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rockhopper (page history and authors); rockhopper (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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