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• The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.From the entry sedentary
• According to an old adage, oysters are best in months containing the letter R.From the entry adage
• I felt sick, as though I'd just eaten a dozen bad oysters.From the entry as though
• The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic.From the entry alcoholic
• We attended a corn shucking and two oyster shuckings.From the entry shucking
• The isodont arrangement is typical of the oysters and scallops.From the entry isodont
• Oysters are farmed from their beds.From the entry bed
• Wine caps, and other tasty species like the phoenix oyster mushroom, can be grown this way.2023, Liv Sisson, Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide, Penguin Random House New Zealand, →ISBN. From the entry companion planting
• The oysters from each farm were distinctive—brinier, sweeter, meatier, creamier, slightly metallic at the finish.2021 March, Barbara Ross, chapter 3, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp.…. From the entry briny
• True oyster lovers really prefer the large Lynnhavens and others on the deep shell.2019, Mary A. Wilson, Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book. From the entry Lynnhaven
• But Orata’s oysters were, like the dormice and fish, collected in the wild, as spat.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 243. From the entry spat
• “You oyster gravy, Massa Sam,” said Ella, ladling a couple of spoonfuls over the rice.2014 September 5, Arthur Hamilton, “Margaret Rose McAllister”, in Jonathan’s Journey, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry you
• You had to be sure, for instance, that you didn't pick sulphur tufts instead of branching oysters.2012, Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, page 209. From the entry sulphur tuft
• Conditions in pearl oyster hatcheries are optimized for growth and survival of spat.2011, The Pearl Oyster, page 256. From the entry spat
• The world may be your oyster, but that doesn't mean you've found the pearl.2008, Nick Clayton, “Introduction”, in The Guardian Guide to Working Abroad, London: A[dam] & C[harles] Black Publishers, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry the world is someone's oyster
• You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari.2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008, →ISBN, page 468. From the entry coco
• The sweet, firm apples turned out to be the perfect foil for the soft, minerally oyster.2007 April 11, Marian Burros, “The Enticing Oyster, in Months With ‘R’ or Not”, in New York Times. From the entry minerally
• The only solids he will eat are the Gerber Puffs, Cheerios, maybe some goldfish, and oyster crackers.2004 December 17, Brodysmommy, “11 month old picky eater or something bigger??”, in misc.kids (Usenet), archived from the original on 21…. From the entry goldfish
• Around noon, they sat down at a little table and ate bowls full of steaming oyster stew.2004 June, Romaine Stauffer, “Book One: The Dawning of the Morning (1884-1905)”, in Annie’s Day of Light, 2nd edition, Morgantown, Pa.…. From the entry bowl full
• OYSTER HOUSE is still the restaurant and watering hole of choice for gamegoers.1999, Giselle Smith, Best Places Seattle, page 179. From the entry gamegoer
• Oyster mushrooms are complemented by onions, butter, mild cheeses, fish, chicken, cream sauces, and gentle herbs.1997, Arleen Raines Bessette, Taming the Wild Mushroom: A Culinary Guide to Market Foraging, page 31. From the entry oyster mushroom
• Fish, oysters, crabs, quampee (pearl shell), eugaree (pippy) and dugong (sea cow).1990, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, “Note”, in Jack Davis, Mudrooroo Narogin, Stephen Muecke, Adam Shoemaker, editors, Paperbark: A Collection of…. From the entry ugari
• He usually has well-above normal intelligence and feels that the world is his oyster.1987, Harry W. More, Peter C. Unsinger, Police Managerial Use of Psychology and Psychologists, page 31. From the entry profilable
• Ah, Jesu, jewboy worshipped in cloisters: abhorring oysters and swinemeat, they offended their gentle neighbours.1963, Irving Layton, “History as a Slice of Ham”, in Balls for a One-Armed Juggler, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart Limited, →OCLC…. From the entry swinemeat
• Xenomorphism in oysters remains restricted to the umbonal region of the right valve.1953, Raymond Cecil Moore, Curt Teichert, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Protista 2. vols. 1-2. c1964, page 95. From the entry xenomorphism
• "I'm sick of always getting oysters; I'd sooner come out with you." Bradly let that go.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 135. From the entry let go
• "You had enough money this week without getting oysters, didn't you?"1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 135. From the entry let go
• With a wire eggbeater, lower the oysters into this three or four at a time.1919, Herald and Presbyter, page 30. From the entry eggbeater
• To be precise, he had an immense plate of steak and oysters, and a bottle of stout.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 155. From the entry stout
• But no withstraint was put on the fishing and the oyster banks gave out.1911, Arthur Bullard, Panama: The Canal, the Country, and the People, page 366. From the entry withstraint
• He reached into the freezer that was still cool and took out a sack that had a few dozen raw oysters.2022, Brent Sute, Stormy Treasure: A Mullally Family Adventure. From the entry R month
• The other difference I noticed from '42 was the sharp drop in oyster farmhands, from hundreds to only three today.2022, David Moscow, John Moscow, From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet, unnumbered page. From the entry kenopsia
• Try the oysters prepared charbroiled, steamed, or fried, or order sushi alongide a divine kiwitini or watermelon mojito.2020 December 8, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's Essential Costa Rica, 3 edition, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN. From the entry kiwitini
• Waiters were in on the ruse, and would frequently distract customers in order to facilitate the yoinking of oysters and caviar.2017, Nate Crowley, 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed), →ISBN, page 90. From the entry yoink
• “Fish and chippy, or should we try the oyster bar?”2017, Kayla Drake, Daring Sarah (Windy City Weddings; 2), Four-Ply Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry fish and chippy
• Harvesting wild oyster mushrooms has always been a favorite fall gathering activity for me as a Michigan outdoorsman.2013, Joe Lunkas, Fifty Years of Gathering, Fishing, and Unusual Animal Encounters, page 30. From the entry oyster mushroom

Meaning of oyster

1. noun Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), 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. noun The delicate oyster-shaped 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. noun Any of the fungi in the genera Pleurotus, Hohenbuehelia, or other related genera.

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How do you use oyster in a sentence?

Oyster is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.”

What is a short sentence with oyster?

“Oysters are farmed from their beds.”

What does oyster mean?

Oyster means any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.