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yabby pumps

yabby pumps is the plural of yabby pump.

Meaning of yabby pump

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...

Questions about yabby pumps

What is yabby pumps the plural of?
Yabby pumps is the plural of yabby pump.

Words near yabby pumps in the dictionary

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

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