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Meanings of oyster in English
Usage of oyster in English
1
The Pacific oyster is available all year round, the native is not.
2
In Victoria, too, the oyster fisheries are in a most unsatisfactory condition.
3
The Danish oyster is also a cluster; Jack is a single oyster.
4
Below the basement of the building is an oyster shop and refectory.
5
The oyster-bed among the rocks was frequently renewed and furnished excellent molluscs.
6
Death was to have the oyster, and Farfrae and himself the shells.
7
Every oyster has its potentialities; Science seeks to convert potentialities into certainties.
8
He merely tied a piece of oyster to the end of it.
9
Vegetarians can use a vegetarian version of oyster sauce made with mushrooms.
10
Well, the human oyster presents to us exactly the same nervous organisation.
11
The clam has always remained a clam, the oyster remained an oyster.
12
The oyster dredgers cheered and schooners changed their course to hail Boyton.
13
There were very nice clam and oyster beds along the river then.
14
The native oyster is back in season after its brief summer break.
15
Fishing company Sanford has a joint-venture oyster farm in Big Glory Bay.
16
A good many of them have certainly made the world their oyster.
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