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oyster-catcher

oyster-catcher is the alternative form of oystercatcher.

Meaning of oystercatcher

Noun

oystercatcher (plural oystercatchers)

  1. Any of several black or pied coastal wading birds in the genus Haematopus that have a long red or orange bill and feed on shellfish.
    • [T]he sea-swallows uttered their ringing "Tree, tree," and the oyster-catchers their mocking "Click, click!" which has caused so many an unsuccessful sportsman to smile.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181
    Synonyms:
    sea-pie, sea-magpie

Forms of oyster-catcher

pluraloyster-catchers

Questions about oyster-catcher

What is oyster-catcher the alternative form of?
Oyster-catcher is the alternative form of oystercatcher.

Words near oyster-catcher in the dictionary

  1. oyster sauces
  2. oyster shooter
  3. oyster shooters
  4. oyster wife
  5. oyster wives
  6. oyster-catcher
  7. oyster-catchers
  8. oyster-shucking knife
  9. oyster-shucking knives
  10. oyster-tecture
  11. oysterage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oyster-catcher (page history and authors); oystercatcher (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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