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yabby pump

yabby pump noun: a large hand-operated syringe-like suction pump, made of metal tubing with a rubber plunger, used to harvest ghost shrimp (prototypically the marine yabby) and other burrowing crustaceans from intertidal environments.

Noun

yabby pump (plural yabby pumps)

  1. (Australia) A large hand-operated syringe-like suction pump, made of metal tubing with a rubber plunger, used to harvest ghost shrimp (prototypically the marine yabby) and other burrowing crustaceans from intertidal environments.
    • In eastern Australia, Callianassa can be obtained in quantities with relative ease by using a local invention (the "yabby pump") which will be described. [...] The sale of yabby pumps and live yabbies for bait is an important aspect of amateur angling in southern Queensland and northern New South...1961, T. S. Hailstone, W. Stephenson, “The Biology of Callianassa (Trypaea) australiensis Dana 1852 (Crustacea, Thalassinidea)”, in University of Queensland Papers: Department of Zoology, volume I...
    • The specimens were collected with a yabby pump in Carenero lagoon, South coast of La Tortuga Island (10º53’N 65º14’W), Venezuela.2005, I. Hernández-Ávila, C. Lira, G. Hernández, J. Bolaños, “Upogebia vasquezi Ngoc-Ho, 1989 (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae): First Record for Venezuela”, in Boletín del Instituto...

Forms of yabby pump

pluralyabby pumps

Questions about yabby pump

What does yabby pump mean?
Yabby pump means a large hand-operated syringe-like suction pump, made of metal tubing with a rubber plunger, used to harvest ghost shrimp (prototypically the marine yabby) and other burrowing crustaceans from intertidal environments.
What part of speech is yabby pump?
Yabby pump is a noun.
What is the plural of yabby pump?
The plural of yabby pump is yabby pumps.

Words near yabby pump in the dictionary

  1. yabbos
  2. Yabbra
  3. yabbut
  4. yabbuts
  5. yabby
  6. yabby pump
  7. yabby pumps
  8. yabbying
  9. Yabem
  10. yabghu
  11. yabghus

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