oyster
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- noun
- /ˈɔɪstər/
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- At the seafood market, you can find various types of oysters available for purchase.
- raw oysters
- consume oysters
- oyster shells
Hang on eggs, oysters, and a rare steak in one day.
- Hang on eggs, oysters, and a rare steak in one day.
- This is mussels, oysters, and clams.
- I was drinking champagne and I was on oysters and I end up really drunk.
- I would love to like, drink beers and have oysters soon, Bro.
- I'm not really that that, you know, well, read on oyster biology.
- The ones we eat, they're scallops, mussels, cockles, oysters, things like that.
- The crab, the the oyster and it'll just some of it.
- And this is kind of Pearl oyster color.
- Oh my God, oysters are fucking disgusting.
- It was, it was just like oysters for everybody.
Examples
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Smoked oysters, artichoke hearts, imported chocolate.
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With the help of a little sweet-and-sour sauce, the oyster was, naturally, delicious.
Academic text (2013) -
Recapture the past in a small oyster village in France.
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- The best oysters in Miami!
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We first went to the Crawfish and Oyster Festival over at Piedmont Park.
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My taste includes both snails and oysters.
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The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters.
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Overfishing was a major issue from the 1960s to 1980s as oysters were collected for food and lime.
Academic text (2011) -
The restaurant served fresh oysters on a bed of ice as a popular appetizer.
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She ordered a dozen oysters that were freshly harvested from the ocean.
Synonyms
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A water animal with a soft body inside two hinged shells, like a clam or oyster
A large edible oyster from Japan often grown on farms
A common, tasty oyster eaten on the Atlantic coast of North America
A shellfish that lives in the sea and makes pearls
A sea oyster that makes pearls inside its shell
A group of spiny oysters that live in warm seas and have bright shells
A large thin shell from a sea animal used for food and crafts
A sea animal with a soft body inside two shells joined at one side, like a clam or oyster
Compounds
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A hard outer part of a sea animal that people use for decoration or to add calcium to soil
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A soft grey mushroom that grows in flat clusters on dead wood and is used in cooking
- Specialized
A sea animal with two thin shells, one side deeply notched, that clings to rocks
A yellow-flowered plant that people grow for its sweet edible roots and leaves
- Philippine
A sea animal with a large thin shell that people use for decoration and for food
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Etymology
Oyster comes from the ancient Greek word ostreon, which meant 'shell'. So an oyster is a shell animal, which helps explain its rough shell and why some oysters make pearls.