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black-sick

black-sick adjective: of an oyster, in which the male fish, has a black substance in the fin, whose mantle chamber contains almost fully developed larvae.

Adjective

black-sick

  1. Of an oyster, in which the male fish, has a black substance in the fin, whose mantle chamber contains almost fully developed larvae.

Questions about black-sick

What does black-sick mean?
Black-sick means of an oyster, in which the male fish, has a black substance in the fin, whose mantle chamber contains almost fully developed larvae.
What part of speech is black-sick?
Black-sick is an adjective.

Words near black-sick in the dictionary

  1. black-pilling
  2. black-pills
  3. black-pudding
  4. black-sant
  5. Black-Scholes model
  6. black-sick
  7. black-spotted
  8. black-striped wallabies
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  10. black-swan event
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