spatfall
spatfall noun: the arrival of spat at the beach during spawning season for shellfish;.
Noun
spatfall (countable and uncountable, plural spatfalls)
- The arrival of spat at the beach during spawning season for shellfish;
- Based on these results, spatfall in Ban Laem would occur from July to September and again from December to February.1988, Tanittha Chongpeepien, Bivalve Mollusc Culture Research in Thailand, →ISBN, page 100
- For example, inter-tidal mussel beds in the Wadden Sea almost disappeared during the late 1980s due to a combination of exploitation and low spatfall.2004, Sir Tom Blundell, Turning the Tide : Addressing the Impact of Fisheries on the Marine Environment, →ISBN
Examples of spatfall in a sentence
- Fluctuations in annual yields of our cockle, mussel and oyster fisheries are largely but not entirely due to good or poor spatfalls.2008, Brian Spencer, Molluscan Shellfish Farming, →ISBN, page 18:
- For the long-term data set, spatfall events and the amount of spatfall increased markedly with strong offshore winds.2012, Issues in Life Sciences: Aquatic and Marine Life, →ISBN:
Forms of spatfall
| plural | spatfalls |
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Origin of spatfall
From spat + fall.
Questions about spatfall
- What does spatfall mean?
- Spatfall means the arrival of spat at the beach during spawning season for shellfish;.
- How do you use spatfall in a sentence?
- Fluctuations in annual yields of our cockle, mussel and oyster fisheries are largely but not entirely due to good or poor spatfalls.
- What part of speech is spatfall?
- Spatfall is a noun.
- What is the plural of spatfall?
- The plural of spatfall is spatfalls.
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