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- Oyster - n. - Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.
- Oyster - n. - A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
- Oyster-green - n. - A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.
- Oystering - n. - Gathering, or dredging for, oysters.
- Oysterling - n. - A young oyster.
- Cracker - n. - A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
- Sheller - n. - One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
- Tirma - n. - The oyster catcher.
- Pinnothere - n. - A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under Oyster.
- Olive - n. - The oyster catcher.
- Scolder - n. - The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.
- Drome - n. - The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.
- Sea pie - - The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus Haematopus.
- Set - n. - A young oyster when first attached.
- Shuck - n. - The shell of an oyster or clam.
- Ostracean - n. - Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.
- Plant - n. - An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- Spat - n. - A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
- Fierasfer - n. - A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.
- Chalder - n. - A kind of bird; the oyster catcher.
- Oyster - n. - Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.
- Plant - n. - A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- Toadfish - n. - Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo.
- Salsify - n. - See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.
- Tautog - n. - An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.
- Trillachan - n. - The oyster catcher.
- Greengill - n. - An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.
- Skieldrake - n. - The oyster catcher.
- Bivalved - a. - Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
- Bivalve - a. - Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
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- G3135 μαργαρίτης - 3135 μαργαρίτης - ΜΑΡΓΑΡΊΤΗΣ - - margarítēs - mar-gar-ee'-tace - from (a pearl-oyster); a pearl:--pearl. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G3749 ὀστράκινος - 3749 ὀστράκινος - ὈΣΤΡΆΚΙΝΟΣ - - ostrákinos - os-tra'-kin-os - from ("oyster") (a tile, i.e. terra cotta); earthen-ware, i.e. clayey; by implication, frail:--of earth, earthen. - Adjective - greek