Oyster

Noun

 * 1) Any marine bivalve mollusk of the Family Ostreidae, usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
 * 2) A name popularly given to the delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
 * 3) A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
 * 4)  A person who keeps secrets and private information to him- or herself.
 * 1)  A person who keeps secrets and private information to him- or herself.

Adjective

 * 1) Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

Verb

 * 1)  To fish for oysters.

Derived terms

 * oyster bed
 * oyster crab
 * oyster cracker
 * oyster farm
 * oyster mushroom
 * oyster pink
 * oyster plant
 * oyster sauce
 * oyster shell scale


 * oyster white
 * oystercatcher
 * oysterman
 * oysters rockefeller
 * pearl oyster
 * prairie oyster
 * seed oyster
 * the world is one’s oyster
 * vegetable oyster

Thesaurus
Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, blue point, breast, chicken foot, clam, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, dark meat, drumstick, giblets, langouste, leg, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, long suit, medium, metier, mussel, neck, periwinkle, prawn, quahog, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, steamer, thigh, turkey foot, whelk, white meat, wing, wishbone

Etymology
ostre:, from ostrea:; reinforced or superseded in  by  oistre: from  oistre:, uistre: (modern French huître:), also from  ostrea:, from  ὄστρεον:.

Noun

 * Albanian: stridhe
 * Arabic: محار
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 * Modern: στρείδι
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 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: острига
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 * Romanian: stridie
 * Russian: устрица
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каменица, оштрига
 * Roman: kamenica, oštriga
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 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: hüit,  hihüit,  jihüit,  hüitül
 * Welsh: llymarch, llymeirch


 * Arabic: محار
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: στρείδι
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 * Macedonian: острига, остриги
 * Navajo:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: устрица
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каменица
 * Roman: kamenica

Anagrams

 * storey, Troyes