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PRONUNCIATION OF ROCK LOBSTER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROCK LOBSTER

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Rock lobster is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ROCK LOBSTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

rock lobster

Spiny lobster

Spiny lobsters, also known as langouste or rock lobsters, are a family of about 60 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia. Spiny lobsters are also, especially in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and The Bahamas, sometimes called crayfish, sea crayfish or crawfish, terms which elsewhere are reserved for freshwater crayfish.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE ROCK LOBSTER

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Synonyms and antonyms of rock lobster in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «rock lobster» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROCK LOBSTER

Find out the translation of rock lobster to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rock lobster from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rock lobster» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

龙虾
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

langosta de roca
570 millions of speakers

English

rock lobster
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रॉक लॉबस्टर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

جراد البحر الصخري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лангуст
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lagosta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শিলা গলদা চিংড়ি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

langouste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lobster batu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rock Lobster
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

伊勢エビ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바위 랍스터
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rock lobster
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

tôm hùm đá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ராக் லோப்ஸ்டர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रॉक लॉबस्टर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kaya ıstakozu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Rock Lobster
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

homara rock
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лангуст
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

homar Rock
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ροκ αστακός
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

kreef
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

languster
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rock Hummer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rock lobster

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCK LOBSTER»

The term «rock lobster» is normally little used and occupies the 110.083 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCK LOBSTER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rock lobster

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROCK LOBSTER»

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Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story about Growing Up Gay
A courageous story of growing up gay in a small New England town.
Aaron Fricke, 1995
2
Under Southern Seas: The Ecology of Australia's Rocky Reefs
The life cycle of the Eastern Rock Lobster follows the same complex series of forms and habitats as the Southern Rock Lobsters. The larvae are thought to spend 8-12 months in the plankton on a journey that may take them hundreds of  ...
Neil Andrew, 1999
3
Fishing with Traps and Pots
35X10 mm 65X23 mm Figure 45 Western Australian batten rock lobster pot. Lobster and rock lobster pots. There are two main types of lobsters: temperate clawed lobsters (Homanis), and tropical and subtropical rock lobsters (Panilurus) which ...
R. J. Slack-Smith, 2001
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Practical Conservation Biology
The Western Australian Rock Lobster industry In 2002, more than 55% of the value of exports of Australia's fishery products was from high-value crustaceans and molluscs (AFFA, 2003a). Various types of rock lobsters accounted for 20% ...
David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, 2005
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Spiny Lobsters: Fisheries and Culture
Pearce, A.F. & Phillips, B.F. (1994) Oceanic processes, puerulus settlement and recruitment of the western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus. In The Bio-physics of Marine Larval Dispersal. (Ed. by P. Sammarco & M. Heron), pp. 279±303.
Bruce Phillips, Jiro Kittaka, 2008
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Australian Fish Guide
ROCK LOBSTER, EASTERN Scientific name Jasus verreauxi. Also known as Eastern crayfish, spiny lobster. Range Tweed Heads in northern NSW and southwards to Port McDonnell South Australia, including Tasmania. Description A large ...
Francis Bernard Prokop, Trevor Hawkins, Geoff Wilson, 2006
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Proceedings of the North Pacific Symposium on Invertebrate ...
Yield- and egg-per-recruit analyses for the New Zealand rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii. N.Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 23: 93-105. Annala, J.H., and Bycroft, B.L. 1987. Fecundity of the New Zealand red rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii. N.Z. J. Mar.
G. S. Jamieson, Alan Campbell, 1998
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Case Studies in Fisheries Self-governance
Management of New Zealand rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii [Photo 1] and Jasus verreauxi) provides an important example for understanding these issues. Because of the rock lobster's history as a set of localised fisheries, an extensive history ...
Ralph Edwin Townsend, Ross Shotton, Hirotsugu Uchida, 2008
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Case Studies on the Allocation of Transferable Quota Rights ...
The CREA report (1997) found that the material costs amounted to about 24% of the landed value of rock lobster, while Morrow ( 1991 ) put the material costs at about 3 1 % of gross landed value. Material costs of 24% equate to about $A12.5  ...
Ross Shotton, 2001
10
Fisheries Management: Progress toward Sustainability
Caputi, N., Chubb, C.F., Melville-Smith, R., Pearce, A. and Griffin, D. (2003) Relationships between life history stages of the western rock lobster,Panulirus cygnusfishery in Western Australia. Fisheries Research, 65: 47–61. Chubb, C.F. ( 1991) ...
Tim McClanahan, Juan Carlos Castilla, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROCK LOBSTER»

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High-profile Tasmanian fisherman cleared of trafficking rock lobster
A Tasmanian fisherman favoured by celebrity chefs because of his sustainable fishing practises has been cleared of trafficking rock lobster. Mark William Eather ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
2
Officer poses as chef, rock lobsters wired, in illegal trafficking …
The crown told the jury that Eather allegedly sold 20 rock lobsters to a Tasmanian undercover officer posing as a chef, and that police had secretly inserted ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
3
Rock lobster hall of fame beckons
Western Rock Lobster Council chief executive John McMath said the nomination acknowledged the fact the fishery had been officially deemed sustainable for so ... «The West Australian, Jun 15»
4
American lobster: The new Chinese New Year delicacy
Exports of U.S. lobster to China have rocketed in the past few years, largely to ... in restaurants – expensive, but more affordable than the Australian rock lobster, ... «Press Herald, Feb 15»
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Rock lobster mop-up operations underway
CAPE TOWN - The Department of Fisheries says 90 percent of the more than 200 tons of rock lobster which washed ashore in Elands Bay on the West Coast ... «Eyewitness News, Feb 15»
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China FTA to create millions of new customers for southern rock
A South Australian rock lobster exporter is expecting millions of new customers due to Australia's free trade agreement (FTA) with China. Sky Seafoods, based in ... «ABC Online, Feb 15»
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Rock lobster prices are rising and there's talk of money at …
The wharf at Currie is the busiest in Tasmania for lobster fishing. ... Typically stints at sea fishing for rock lobster lasted a week and Mr Mauric said at times in very ... «ABC Online, Jan 15»
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Vocal Adrenaline Rocks 80s Hit 'Rock Lobster' On This Week's GLEE
... at 9 PM on FOX. Download songs from GLEE's "The Hurt Locker, Part 1" on iTunes here. Listen to Vocal Adrenaline's "Rock Lobster" from GLEE below. «Broadway World, Jan 15»
9
Western Rock Lobster beach price unpredictable and unseasonably …
December is traditionally a time of high catch and low prices for the West Australian delicacy, however Lobster Fisheries received an average price of around ... «ABC Online, Jan 15»
10
Tasmanian rock lobster prices skyrocket
Tasmanian rock lobster prices skyrocket on the back of Chinese demand ... Tasmanians may struggle to afford local lobster this Christmas as Chinese demand ... «ABC Online, Dec 14»

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